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| Safe Trip Home is the warm, moving and wonderfully musical third album from Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, better and more commonly known simply as Dido. The London-born singer-songwriter with the cracked-crystal voice first gave us No Angel, a record made when she was a part-time backing singer with a tiny budget and no label.
When that record's heartfelt snap-shots of life were released in 1999, nobody, least of all Dido, expected the album to eventually become UK’s Biggest selling debut album by a British female artist. The similarly affecting follow-up, 2003's Life For Rent, also burrowed its way into millions of hearts, hitting number one in 26 countries and lighting up the airwaves in many more. “White Flag” was the most played record on UK Radio on release, and even garnered her a Ivor Novello award for the Songwriter of the Year (2003) with 'White Flag' Dido had inadvertently set the tone for Safe Trip Home, a record whose smouldering, soulful songs were to eventually feature her playing guitar, piano, bells and the trusty old recorder she'd toured Europe with as a prodigious pupil of London's Guildhall School of Music. She's even responsible for some of the album's drums (most notably on the sumptuously melancholy “Quiet Times”). Dido's softly-expressed thoughts, parables, feelings, hopes and concerns flow unfettered from her latest offering Safe Trip Home. It is a record of love and loss, strength and surrender, highs and lows. And, as with her previous two albums, Dido shows an astonishing knack for extracting life's universals from its little details. That, as much as anything, is what makes Safe Trip Home such a rewarding listen. "This album is full of the joy of making music," says Dido. "The process of making it has been a wonderful experience, something to totally cherish. I've put every emotion into these songs. And now I just really hope they move people." It's hard to imagine that they won't. For more information on Dido, head on down to www.didomusic.com | www.safetriphome.com |