“Sitting on the Roof of the World,” carried by folky guitar picking, reflects on sudden pop success and “not knowing how I got there or how to leave,” insisting that she’d rather just “fit in” to everyday life.ĭido wrote and largely recorded the album before the birth of her son in July 2011 she polished the productions last year. In the album’s title song, synthesizer chords puff gentle syncopations as Dido wishes she could be “the girl who got away” - less mousy and uptight, more passionate - but doesn’t expect much. And their songs continue to long for solace.ĭido is no dance-pop belter her sweet, small voice rarely escapes its underlying reserve, which can be soothing or merely dull. “Girl Who Got Away” reunites Dido with Rollo Armstrong, her brother and the leader of the dark dance-pop group Faithless, as her main producer and songwriting partner.
Her third album, “Safe Trip Home” (2008), switched producers, largely renounced electronics and grew more melancholy it found fewer listeners. “Girl Who Got Away” revisits the fusion of folk-pop melodies and club beats that sold more than 28 million copies worldwide of Dido’s first two albums, “No Angel” (1999) and “Life for Rent” (2003). The electronics are there, however, and they lift the album’s better songs out of the sad-sack zone. Dido is still a forlorn, sensitive ballad singer, still wondering, as she does in “Blackbird,” “Why do I bring you love/When all you give me back is pain?” Advance reports that this British songwriter’s fourth album, “Girl Who Got Away,” would be a “big, fun electronic extravaganza” were misleading. Don’t worry, Dido hasn’t cheered up too much.
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