Safe Trip Home
by Dido
  • Record Label: Arista
  • Release Date: Nov 18, 2008
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 53 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 53
  3. Negative: 6 out of 53

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  1. ultipop19
    Apr 6, 2018
    9
    It's an amazing album . Dido is more mature and less experimental than her previous efforts . Jon Brion on production is a big +
  2. CharlieGray
    Feb 11, 2016
    10
    Amazing record, one of the most beautiful and instrospectives albums I have ever heard.
    I love it so much, Dido's voice it's simply magnificent and she is very talented.
  3. Iro190688
    Dec 2, 2013
    10
    Even though it brings some blues, here we can find the most confessional and beautifully produced album of her career. An inspiring kiss-goodbye to her late father
  4. alain
    Mar 26, 2013
    9
    An elegant fusion of real instrumentation attempting to imitate electronic sounds which perfectly blends with Dido's voice and lyrics. The album contains a good variety of sounds which keeps the listener engaged.
  5. SpiderJon
    May 1, 2012
    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
  6. bernlin2000
    Jul 23, 2011
    9
    I continue to enjoy Dido's music, which is in some ways hasn't changed over the years, but has still matured. Her voice remains gorgeous and the music is personal and lovely.
  7. [Anonymous]
    Nov 22, 2008
    10
    Mature and so refreshingly different to the sound most artistes are going for today.
  8. JonH.
    Nov 21, 2008
    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.
  9. K.B.
    Nov 21, 2008
    9
    It's really more intense than everything she done before. It's her best album ever.
  10. JohannaM.
    Nov 18, 2008
    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.

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#65 Most Shared Album of 2008

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    The emotion in these sad, subtle songs seems inherent enough, though you may still find yourself wishing she'd allowed the slightest hint of it to creep into her voice.
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  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.
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  3. Spin
    50
    Dido's third solo album reveals an unyielding fear of intimacy, her mellow trip-pop (coproduced by Jon Brion) buckling underneath sadness and alienation.
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