No Angel
Beneath its modern sonic veneer, Dido\'s *No Angel* is an album very much in the British pop chanteuse tradition of Dusty Springfield, Sandie Shaw, and Tracey Thorn — she shares the classy demeanor and cool intelligence that typified these earlier hit-makers. Superbly produced by her brother Rollo Armstrong (with help from Rick Nowels, Youth and others), *No Angel* abounds with insinuating tunes, simmering electronic beats and unexpected acoustic embellishments. With a sharp eye for lyrical detail, Dido traces love\'s small pleasures and lingering hurts in tracks like \"Thank You,\" \"Hunter\" and \"All You Want.\" Loneliness is a reoccurring topic here, sensitively expressed in \"Here With Me\" and \"My Lover\'s Gone.\" Thoughtful pieces like \"Isobel\" contrast with sensuous dance-pop tracks like \"Take My Hand.\" Best of all is \"Don\'t Think of Me,\" a scathing put-down of an ex-lover, riding upon a gorgeous melody and dressed in sumptuous strings. Collectively, these songs create a fully rendered portrait of the artist without becoming insular or self-indulgent. *No Angel* went on to become a world-wide smash and ranks as one of the best pop albums of the decade.
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No Angel is a sleepy response to the torture of lost love, its folky pop quietly accented with elements of electronica.