Safe Trip Home

It's the moment we've all been waiting for: November 19, 2008. Dido's new album, Safe Trip Home, finally hit stores in the United States.

I've been waiting for this CD since, oh, FOREVER, and now it's here. The melancholy, brooding, restraint, taffy-pulled melodic lines are everything I hoped for and more. Expect a full post after I give the album a good listen and analysis.

Before that time, I just watched Les Chansons d'Amour, a beautiful French movie-musical about a young man Ismaël coping with the death of his lover. The movie reminds me so much of Les Parapluies des Cherbourg with Catherine Deneuve. Much of the dialogue is sung, and I'm still wondering if the singing is meant to be thoughts, emotions or dialogue. And, maybe that's the point of the film: love songs manifest themselves as all three.

This is my favorite song from the movie. If you aren't a Francophone, my one sentence English summary is "Things are still the same without you; I wish you were still here."