Album # 4 believes wholeheartedly!

Dido is one of the few artists who released consistently great albums since the beginning of her career. This time, the inclined fan had but five years the new plant with the matching title "Girl Who Got Away" wait and I can imagine that your sound will probably receive less attention in the currently dominated by Rihanna and Co. music scene, as appropriate would.

To make it short: Dido Dido is flat. Anyone who thinks it has reinvented itself in the last five years, will probably be disappointed. But that's what makes it for me, and unique in the fast-paced musical landscape. Nevertheless, "Girl Who Got Away" is different than the previous. Not so surprisingly different at that time as "No Angel", less hit-heavy as "Life For Rent" and not as quiet and withdrawn as "Safe Trip Home". Change always takes place at Dido in shades instead and not by the usual today Hau-top method. In her own way she now has thus created the fourth album in a row, that can completely pull one into its spell when you're getting into it.

With positive songs like "Girl Who Got Away" or the conditions for Dido's almost club-friendly "End Of Night" laughs one formally the sun out of the heart, a few songs later ("Happy New Year", "Day Before We Went To War ") meets a singer with her melancholy to the core. Very successful, I find also "Let Us Move On" with guest rapper Kendrick Lamar, although I feel a rap style in pop songs otherwise almost always superfluous and rather than annoying.

The deluxe edition is worthwhile: With "Just Say Yes", "Let's Runaway" and "Lost" three great songs are included, but who probably did not fit really into music concept. "All I See" has a great beat, but to me the rap part of the previously unknown to me Pete Miser is then too expansive. A pity, I find that one has of "Everything To Lose" a remix, not the original version (can be found on the soundtrack of "Sex and the City 2") pressed on the bonus CD. The slightly modified version of "Let Us Move On" is needed now is not necessarily mandatory.

All in all, Dido has again created for me a small masterpiece, that will probably establish as timelessly in my music collection as their three previous albums. Thumbs up!