I've read several reviews of Dido's first new album in five years: Safe Trip Home. Using my highly scientific aggregating skills, here is my official review without hearing a note from the album:

Safe Trip Home is Dido at her Didoest: boring and forgettable yet remarkably likable and pleasant.

So there you go. I know ... impressive. It's a trade secret so don't even ask. I'm not ranked in the top million on Technorati for nothing!

Safe Trip Home is safely available today at your favorite digital outlet. Evidently, the genius of Jon Brion and Brian Eno can only do so much to make her any more interesting.

The AV Club has a great interview with one of my musical idols, Jon Brion.

I'm the luckiest son of a bitch in the world.

That's not the whole interview. You can read the whole thing here.

Kanye "George Bush hates black people" West is again working with too poppy stud producer Jon Brion for West's new album Graduation that is expected to be released late this year. West about Brion:

"Jon wasn't just a producer -- he was such a good friend and a great person to bounce ideas off of in the studio. It was the whole experience."

Chris Martin of Coldplay is playing the role of ubiquitous Brit-pop-star-rap-album-guest on Graduation just as he did for Jay-Z's "comeback" album. Man, he's just become insufferable since marrying his likewise insufferable soul-mate Gwyneth. What a waste. Coldplay's debut was awesome and so full of promise (Yellow!). Now Martin writes horrific mixed bags of crap like Fix You (despite the stellar last third of the song). Que lastima.