Dido - Safe Trip Home

Dido likes to offset her delicate, fragile voice and strummy acoustic guitar with big bass, synth and drum lines that create a sonic depth to her rather sparse recordings. All the songs on Safe Trip Home keep the beats-per-minute safely under 80. Loss of love and heartbreak are familiar themes and Dido is back with a pile more. Safe Trip Home is just that, a safe journey that does little to advance Dido’s diming career. She needs to get out of bed and do something exciting.

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