Bought it about 8-9 months ago, before it charted. Not particularly inspiring album to be honest, and not particularly well recorded either. Sounds like a listless Sarah McClachlan clone to me.
Posts: 152 | Location: liverpool,merseyside,u.k. | Registered: Sat 05 August 2000
I really like Dido's album. It's fairly well recorded. On less-good systems her voice takes on a hard quality and can sound flat. This is definitely an album that needs a good system (i.e. any Naim system) to sound reasonable. Every piece of Jap kit I've tried makes it sound awful.
I really like the songs on the album. There's a lot of depth and feeling there, though I find 'Thankyou' less inspiring than I expected and it's one of my least favourite songs on there.
Regards, Frank.
Posts: 4425 | Location: UK | Registered: Wed 09 August 2000
It's my favourite album at the moment. Her voice sounds great to me, but most of the samples/production sounds like it was done through the naffest of PC sound cards.
Posts: 1524 | Location: Yorkshire, UK | Registered: Tue 19 September 2000
Dido is surprisingly good and quite varied. Some tracks have a haunting arrangement which is a bit unusual, others almost 'folky'. A couple of tracks appear to have their intro's pinched from Thea Gilmore's Lipstick Conspiracies.
Nelly Furtado's album, apart from the chart track, just doesn't work for me. The rest of tha album soumds as though it has been done by somebody else.
quote:Give it time, it's one of those that kicks in after a number of plays.
Yeah, I bought it after resisting for almost a year, though I've never seen Sliding Doors (the Eminem sample of "Thank You" gets loads of airplay 'round the Midwest--must be a white-trash ethic) nor have I ever seen Roswell on U.S. television (theme song).
Lead-off track ("Here With Me") is quite good (co-written with Paul Statham & Pascal Gabriel--Peter Murphy's ex-keyboard player & programmer--who masquerade as 3P, Peach, etc.), but I'd not recommend it to people who don't have English pop sensibilities. (I guess she's touring the U.S. this summer with Travis--mostly larger outdoor venues.)
Much different than Faithless, which gets a bit of club play over here.
Dave Dever, NANA
Posts: 2506 | Location: Chicago, IL / Indianapolis, IN USA | Registered: Mon 31 July 2000
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