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Dido Releasing New Album | ‘Safe Trip Home’ Signals Return After Five Years Absence

by Dave Parrack on August 22nd, 2008

Whatever happened to Dido? She was massive for a time after her first two albums, No Angel and Life For Rent were released, achieving worldwide success, even breaking America. But we haven’t seen anything of her since Life For Rent dropped in 2003.

Well now she’s back, with the announcement that her new album, her third studio release called Safe Trip Home, will be released on November 3rd.

The first single off the album, Don’t Believe In Love, will precede the album release and a track called Look No Further is available as a free download from the singer’s official website from today until September 7th.

The album was recorded in London and Los Angeles, and co-produced by Jon Brion, Dido, and her brother Rollo. One of the songs was co-written by famous record producer Brian Eno.

This album should by rights be a huge success, with Life For Rent and No Angel selling 22 million records around the world so far between them. The problem I foresee is that music has moved on a little from then, and unless Dido has moved with it, the album could sound very dated.

There is also the fact that she has been away for so long, with most people last seeing her on the Band Aid 20 release of Do They Know It’s Christmas in 2004. That’s a long time to go without a record in the charts and in people’s subconscious.

I really hope Safe Trip Home lives up to the impossibly high expectations, as some of Dido’s songs are absolutely brilliant. But for me there will be a question mark hanging over the album until it’s released and we find out if she still has the gift for writing a classic pop song.

[Photo Source: From Newscom with permission]

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