Dido set to release new album ‘Safe Trip Home’

By Patrick Luce Oct 21, 2008, 18:21 GMT

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UK singer Dido will return to store shelves with a new album, ‘Safe Trip Home,’ on Nov. 18th from Arista Records.

The album features the single “Don’t Believe In Love” – which is currently available for download and was featured on the new “90210” television series.

From a press release:

The journey is underway for Dido’s forthcoming album, ‘Safe Trip Home,’ which will be released by Arista Records on the newly announced date of November 18, 2008.

Leading up to the release of her third album, film directors from around the world have been invited to make a series of short films to spotlight each of the album's 11 songs.

Filmed at locations though out the globe (Mumbai, Rio, Bangkok and more), each film will examine a day in life of people in different countries. Trailers for the first four films can be viewed online at: http://www.youtube.com/SafeTripHome.

In the coming weeks, Dido will host upcoming listening parties outside of London and Los Angeles, where ‘Safe Trip Home’ will be played its entirety. Afterwards, she will meet fans.

‘Safe Trip Home’ is currently available for digital pre-order from the iTunes Store. Customers who pre-order the album from iTunes will instantly receive Dido’s new single, “Don’t Believe In Love.” Two digital versions are available through iTunes: a standard and a deluxe that features bonus content.

The deluxe version contains three bonus tracks “For One Day,” “Summer” and a remixed version of “Northern Skies,” a video for “Don’t Believe In Love,” digital liner notes, plus the pre-orders-only track “The Day Before The Day 5/4.”

Recorded in Los Angeles and London, ‘Safe Trip Home’ is produced by Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Kanye West, Rufus Wainwright, Eels), Ark - the new production company founded by Rollo Armstrong (Faithless) and Dido.

The new album includes smoldering, soulful songs that feature Dido playing guitar, piano, bells and the trusty recorder she toured Europe with as a prodigious pupil of London’s Guildhall School of Music. She’s even responsible for some of the album’s drums (most notably on the sumptuously melancholy “Quiet Times.”). The record also includes “Grafton Street,” a song Dido co-wrote with Brian Eno.

‘Safe Trip Home’ follows the global, chart-topping success of Dido’s two previous albums: ‘No Angel’ and ‘Life for Rent.’