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Entertainment WeeklyMar 29, 2013[Dido] carries it with her creamy alto and her sweetly ethereal allure. [5 Apr 2013, p.67]
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Mar 25, 2013Halfway through, Girl Who Got Away sucks you into its sway, its comforts as alluring as they are elusive.
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Mar 1, 2013As an album, it doesn’t break any new ground--it doesn’t try to. What it does do though is sweep itself up in a groundswell of beautiful, heart-tugging nostalgia so strong it’s as if 2003 lies just beyond the window again, shimmering in the haze of the morning dew.
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Mar 1, 2013Admittedly, the album contains the odd soporific song like No Freedom, but these turns are outweighed by tracks with a strong tune or an unexpected hint of sadness.
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MojoApr 10, 2013Surprises include End Of Night, nicely brutish electro-pop where Dido's automaton vocal really works; funked-up raga/calypso Love To Blame; and Sitting On The Roof Of The World.... Otherwise, Musak coming soon to a changing room near you. [May 2013, p.88]
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Mar 25, 2013The electronics are there, however, and they lift the album’s better songs out of the sad-sack zone.
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Mar 4, 2013There are some more adventurous diversions, including a guest spot from Kendrick Lamar.
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Mar 1, 2013While her new dance direction leads to a fairly tame trip-hop/chill-out zone, it's a great improvement on her usual blandness.
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UncutMar 1, 2013It would be nice to see Dido with more adventurous producers. [Apr 2013, p.69]
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Mar 21, 2013There are some new moves here, but they tend to feel half-baked, under-exploited or, in the case of Kendrick Lamar’s appearance on “Let Us Move On”, just a bit hackneyed.
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Q MagazineMar 12, 2013Day Before We Went To War, co-written by Brian Eno, inflects mundane details with enigmatic dread in a similar fashion to the frostbitten adult pop if ABBA's final years. If only you could hear this colder, bolder Dido in every song. [Apr 2013, p.101]
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Mar 1, 2013It ticks along unremarkably on smudges of synthesiser and shuffling drum programmes, augmented by acoustic guitar or synthetic brass stabs.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 34
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Mixed: 7 out of 34
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Negative: 1 out of 34
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