Safe Trip Home - Dido
  • Band Name: Dido
  • Record Label: Arista
  • Release Date: Nov 18, 2008
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74 out of 100

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8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 33 Ratings

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  • Summary: After a five year absence the British singer returns with her third album produced by Jon Brion.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. All Music Guide
    90
    There are melancholic edges, but it's not haunting, it's comforting, reassuring music that's quietly powerful, music that Dido hinted at before but never quite made.
  2. Observer Music Monthly
    80
    This album is a mature and thoughtful collection of songs and a fine memorial to her father, who would have been right to be proud.
  3. Q Magazine
    80
    Lucky, then she's so musically warm and, like its predecessors, Safe Trip Home takes comfort in a sound that almost masks her unrest. Almost. [Dec 2008, p.127]
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  4. Blender
    60
    Dido should let her socks go unsorted for a while; genuine sorrow sounds good on her.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. JonH.
    10
    Her best album yet, a definite rebound after the beautiful but somewhat slight Life For Rent. There isn't a lot of singles here, but that's not a bad thing. The songs creep into your skull and stay with you. You'll be humming them to yourself soon. Check out Don't Believe in Love, Grafton Street, It Comes and It Goes and Burnin Love.… Expand
  2. [Anonymous]
    10
    Mature and so refreshingly different to the sound most artistes are going for today.
  3. JohannaM.
    6
    The album, taken as a whole, is quite nice. but very bland. It seems to largely be the same stuff you'd expect as filler tracks on Dido albums, but with none of the exceptional gems as seem in "Sand in my shoes" or "Isobel" from her first two albums.… Expand
  4. SpiderJon
    3
    It's well produced, certainly. But it's a well produced bland and dull album. "Safe" would be an adventurous description. Dido's voice sounds effortless. But it also sounds emotionless and completely unengaged, too. She could be singing the instructions for a Sanyo microwave or an account of unendurable human sorrow - it would be impossible to tell the difference… Expand

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