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Dido: Still on my Mind

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Label: BMG Records
Released: 2019.03.08
Time:
 45:27
Category: Pop/Rock, Electro-folk
Producer(s): Dido, Rollo Armstrong, Dee Adam, Si Hulbert, Ryan Laubscher
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.didomusic.com
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Purchase date: 2020
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Hurricanes (D.Armstrong/R.Armstrong/R.Nowels) - 5:17
[2] Give You Up (S.Hulbert/D.Adam/D.Thakrar/R.Agostini) - 3:21
[3] Hell After This (D.Armstrong/R.Laubscher) - 3:27
[4] You Don't Need a God (D.Armstrong/R.Armstrong) - 3:31
[5] Take You Home (D.Armstrong/R.Armstrong/R.Nowels) - 5:05
[6] Some Kind of Love (D.Armstrong/R.Armstrong) - 4:42
[7] Still on My Mind (D.Armstrong/R.Laubscher) - 3:04
[8] Mad Love (D.Armstrong/R.Armstrong) - 2:52
[9] Walking By (D.Armstrong/R.Laubscher) - 4:31
[10] Friends (D.Armstrong/R.Laubscher/M.Hales) - 3:23
[11] Chances (D.Armstrong/R.Armstrong/D.Adam/G.Sigsworth) - 3:31
[12] Have to Stay (D.Armstrong/R.Laubscher) - 2:43

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Dido - Vocals, Beats, Guitar, Keyboards, Mixing, Producer on [1,3-12], Programming

Ryan Laubscher - Keyboards, Mixing, Piano, Producer on [9], Programming
Pete Rinaldi - Guitar
Sister Bliss - Keyboards
Christopher Cooper - Keyboards
Joseph William Bernie - Vocals

Rollo Armstrong - Beats, Mixing, Producer, Programming, Producer on [1,3-8,10-11]
Dee Adam - Composer, Engineer, Instrumentation, Mixing, Producer on [2], Programming
Adotskitz - Additional Production, Mixing
Si Hulbert - Engineer, Instrumentation, Mixing, Producer on [2], Programming
Dave Pye - Engineer
Will Marsh - Assistant Engineer
Richard Woodcraft - Vocal Engineer
Miles Showell - Mastering
Eric James - Mastering
Mandy Parnell - Mastering
Big Active - Art Direction, Design
Simon Emmett - Photography

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Recorded at the RAK Studios, London

2019 LP BMG 4050538455823
2019 Digital BMG 4050538455830
2019 LP BMG 4050538455809
2019 CD BMG 4050538455793



Still on My Mind is the fifth studio album by English singer Dido, released on 8 March 2019 through BMG. It is her first studio album since 2013's Girl Who Got Away. The teaser single "Hurricanes" was released on 12 November 2018. The official lead single "Give You Up" was premiered 22 January 2019 on BBC Radio 2. Dido toured in support of the album from May 2019, making it her first world tour in 15 years. The deluxe edition of the album was released on 15 November 2019 but failed to chart.

Dido wrote and recorded the album in England with her brother Rollo. She said she "only wanted to make another album if it was with him", and called the recording process simple and an "absolutely magical experience", saying it was "made in such an easy way, all the vocals recorded on the sofa, a lot of it recorded at home".

The album is said to display Dido's "love of hip hop and her folk roots", and feature "a dance and electronic music sensibility". According to Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic, Still on My Mind is essentially an electro-folk album with a "hip hop heartbeat" and elements of electro-pop, synth-pop, disco and new age.

Still on My Mind received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 70 based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".
Dido first announced the single "Give You Up" while answering fan questions on Twitter, and also revealed the title of "Chances". Dido later stated in an interview with the Evening Standard that the final track on the album would be a song about parenthood titled "Have to Stay". Despite releasing a total of four singles from the album, Dido failed to promote the last three at all, due to being on tour.

wikipedia.org



Reinvigorated and confident, Dido returns from a six-year absence with her sparkling fifth album, Still on My Mind. Following 2013's neon-washed Girl Who Got Away, this set features her liveliest, catchiest production since early-era breakthroughs No Angel and Life for Rent, and soundtracks familiar themes of love, loss, desire, and -- as the mother of a young son -- family. Anchored by her yearning and ever-ethereal vocals, the LP delivers on the promising glimmers that were teased on its cool (but ultimately sedate) predecessor, successfully synthesizing the spirit of her early hybrid sound with updated late-2010s sheen. Yet another collaboration with her brother Rollo, Still on My Mind finds the English singer/songwriter in a mature, controlled space -- an elegant but fresh collection of her familiar electro-folk with a hip-hop heartbeat. Strumming to life with the expansive beauty "Hurricanes," Still on My Mind offers moody callbacks to the early 2000s with emotive highlights "Some Kind of Love," "Give You Up," and the title track, which builds to a shiver-inducing beat drop. Lively electro-pop entries "You Don't Need a God," "Mad Love," and "Friends" bubble to life, while the hard-hitting "Hell After This" echoes Depeche Mode synth pop and the glittery "Take You Home" pulses with disco glory. Dido even takes subtle cues from Enya, putting her spin on new age grace with the plaintive "Walking By" and the triumphant "Chances." Two decades after her debut, Still on My Mind stands impressively strong, a late-era peak that is refreshing in its fearlessness and comforting with a familiarity that doesn't rest too heavily upon the past. Considering the long gap between albums, Still on My Mind is more than worth the wait.

Neil Z. Yeung - AllMusic.com



ix years after her last album, Girl Who Got Away, and 20 years after her ubiquitous debut, No Angel, Dido’s version of pop is still most distinguishable for what it lacks: drama. The London singer may be one of the UK’s best-selling artists of all time, with her keening pop mantras “Thank You” and “White Flag” still reliable soundtracks in Tescos the nation over, but her even-keel approach feels removed from the volatile acrobatics and catharsis of Adele, Amy Winehouse, Ellie Goulding, and her other peers of the past two decades. Her songs still feel like the exhalation after all the action happens; in Dido songs, the tumult has been resolved by the time she records. Her breakup ballads simmer with loss and melancholy, but no regret or indecision; sweeping love anthems have no runway left for the chase, only snug contentment and bright promises to live up to another’s faith. What her music lacks in heat, it makes up for in reliable serenity—the sense that she’s already done her emotional heavy-lifting offstage, and the song she offers is the coda, not the conduit.
It’s extremely mature, in other words—not always the sexiest bait in pop music, but a balm all its own. Dido’s fifth album, Still on My Mind, guides her even more into the path of serenity and easy listening electronics, with odes to marriage and motherhood that bask in their comforts. Her most stunning asset is still her voice—a glossy, palatial purr, fraying at the edges, nodding clearly to Enya and Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries. When she sings of “Hurricanes,” those frightening and upending sources of power, she is really asking to stand by her partner forever, so they might face them together; a delicate, late-’90s synth beat (from her brother and regular collaborator, Rollo Armstrong) offers up a few light gales, but nothing so forceful as the title could conjure.

Soon after, Dido sings her harshest and most jarring lyric: “I’ve found a way to let you go/It’s gonna rip your heart out,” she offers tranquilly, with all the malice of a kitten gif, skipping up into falsetto for a dash of whimsy. (Imagine Eminem, whose sampling of her on “Stan” made her ubiquitous, braying that same line. Marvel that they ever had a conversation, let alone shared a hit song. Let your heart swell to embrace all the gorgeous, absurd potential in this world, and then cap it with the knowledge that Dido named her son Stan.)

Elsewhere, the dance floor beckons: “Take You Home” rides a feathery disco pulse and an undercurrent of rakishness, below the elegant surface: “I can sing you a song, take you home/But I can’t seem to find my own,” Dido sings, unbothered, in a neutral middle register that doesn’t jump octaves or arpeggiate in any of the usual disco conventions. It’s notable that in a dance track, a style that would usually suggest more momentum, Dido’s singing twists in the wind; the passive house-lite backing emphasizes the lack of vocal heat. “Friends,” the other dance track and a confident brush-off to an ex, also simmers with a gentle, proto-“TRL” amiability that sounds more dated than No Angel’s winsome mixes. Plenty of career pop singers have found second lives in house and EDM tracks that amped up their voices with fresh relevance, from Kelly Rowland to Lenny Kravitz and Leona Lewis; when Still on My Mind dips into the dance realm, it suggests Dido could do the same, but she’d need more dynamic backing.

Or maybe the dance tracks don’t land simply because the club is not where Dido wants to be. In Still on My Mind’s closing track, “Have to Stay,” she sounds her most enamored; nearly a capella to open, with just a puff of echo, she sings a delicate, lovely ode to her son, promising that she’ll stick by his side, enduring all his young histrionics and troubles, and leave him only when he’s truly ready, “’cause that’s what love is, darling.” It’s the preternatural certainty Dido shows that really warms the song; on Still on My Mind, more than ever, she presents her convictions fully formed, with a confidence that can feel infectious. Of course her marriage will face storms and come out intact; of course she’ll continue to shun the ghosts of her past, and guide her son towards a bright future. Here she declares it, and so shall it be.

7 out of 10

Stacey Anderson - March 13 2019
pitchfork.com



It’s something wrong with me, most likely. There’s nothing specifically hateful about Dido’s voice. I just don’t feel any emotional connection with it at all. If you like its aggressive timidity, you’re in luck. There’s plenty here, level and featureless as a really good pavement; Ronseal pop, recorded on the sofa, a weak cup of tea within reach. There have probably been worse songs. The mildly affecting ballad Some Kind of Love would be charming by Saint Etienne, for example, but in Dido’s chill grasp it always feels like a performance, serenely unaffected by feeling. Pop music should be stolen pages from a head-spun diary; this is someone remembering the poem they wrote about a hedge.

Still, Dido’s brother – Faithless mastermind Rollo Armstrong – does a solid job with the production. Take You Home’s polite, shuffling beat is very track six, disc two of a 90s chilled house compilation. Yet all Rollo’s ingenious tricks can’t compensate for his sister’s inert contribution. Chances begins “All I did today was wake up and watch TV” then somehow becomes even less interesting than that already maddeningly bland revelation. More boring and pointless than Brexit.

Damien Morris - 10 Mar 2019
www.theguardian.com



For the majority of the global population, who remember the twilight of the 1990s, Dido’s early records – No Angel and Life For Rent – are embedded in their psyche.

Those albums were huge commercial successes for the English singer. spawning several era-defining singles, namely Here with Me. Steadily, however, Dido allowed her superstar status to become diminished. In an attempt to edge further afield from the image she gained following her duet with Eminem, she collaborated with producer Jon Brion and Brian Eno. Eventually, Dido became a peripheral figure in a realm she once ruled.

On her fifth album, Still on My Mind, Dido’s honeyed timbre is unchanged as she returns to the subtle electronic rhythms that made her a household name. In many ways, it’s as though time has stood still. Working with her brother – and founding member of Faithless – Rollo Armstrong, her new material exudes the vigour of late-1990s dance beats (Mad Love) whilst including accessible chillwave (Chances).

Highlights include Hurricanes and You Don’t Need a God. Both represent classic and contemporary takes on Dido’s style, ultimately appealing to day-one fans and anyone coming of age in 2019.

Zara Hedderman - Mar 8, 2019
The Irish Times
 

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