Still on My Mind

Dido wrote and recorded the album in the UK with her brother Rollo. She said she "only wanted to make another album if it was with him", and called the recording process simple and an "absolutely magical experience",{{cite web|url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/dido-play-olympia-theatre-22761972|title=Dido to play the Olympia Theatre|work=Hot Press|last=McMahon|first=Amy|date=12 November 2018|accessdate=13 November 2018}} saying it was "made in such an easy way, all the vocals recorded on the sofa, a lot of it recorded at home".{{cite web|url=https://www.entertainment-focus.com/music-section/music-news/dido-returns-with-new-album-still-on-my-mind-and-2019-world-tour-dates/|title=Dido returns with new album Still On My Mind and 2019 world tour dates|work=Entertainment Focus|last=Ellwood-Hughes|first=Pip|date=12 November 2018|accessdate=13 November 2018}}

Dido said she inadvertently made the album very similar to No Angel. Dido felt no one would ever hear No Angel at the time of its release and that the feeling that no one would hear her album crept into Still on My Mind because she had a good time recording it.{{cite interview|subject=Dido|subject-link=Dido (singer)|interviewer=Chris Azzopardi|title=Dido Has Stories She Might Tell You: Musician Talks Madonna's Confidence, Gay Fans & Her 'Terrifying' Real Name|url=https://pridesource.com/article/dido-has-stories-she-might-tell-you-musician-talks-madonnas-confidence-gay-fans-her-terrifying-real-name/|work=PrideSource|date=18 March 2019|access-date=26 June 2021}}

Dido learned a lot about production while making the album on songs like "Hell After This" and "Mad Love". She described her style of production as less professional, haphazard, and a mess compared to her brother, Rollo Armstrong, as she records everything in one take and is constantly deleting stuff. The final track on the album, "Have to Stay", was recorded in its first take as she was writing it. The person Dido was writing with, Ryan Laubscher, doesn't move chords for the first two verses of the song because he's getting to grips with what she's singing as she's singing it for the first time. Dido said she loved the feel of it so much that when she came in to record it properly, it never felt the same, so she kept the first recording.

The album is said to display Dido's "love of hip hop and her folk roots", and feature "a dance and electronic music sensibility". According to Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic, Still on My Mind is essentially an electro-folk album with a "hip hop heartbeat" and elements of electro-pop, synth-pop, disco and new age.

{{Music ratings

| MC = 70/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/still-on-my-mind/dido|title=Critic Reviews for Still on My Mind - Metacritic|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=8 March 2019}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/still-on-my-mind-mw0003225064|title=Still on My Mind – Dido |last=Yeung |first=Neil Z. |publisher=AllMusic |date=8 March 2019|accessdate=9 March 2019}}

| rev2 = Consequence of Sound

| rev2score = B{{cite web|last1=Graves|first1=Wren|title=Album of the Week: Dido Runs a Warm Bath of Power Pop on the Soothing Still on My Mind|url=https://consequence.net/2019/03/album-of-the-week-dido-still-on-my-mind/|website=Consequence of Sound|language=en|date=8 March 2019|access-date=28 June 2019}}

| rev3 = The Irish Times

| rev3Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite news |last1=Hedderman |first1=Zara |title=Dido: Still on My Mind review – time stands still for 1990s pop superstar |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/dido-still-on-my-mind-review-time-stands-still-for-1990s-pop-superstar-1.3817920 |newspaper=The Irish Times |accessdate=4 April 2019 |language=en}}

| rev4 = The Observer

| rev4Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/10/dido-still-on-my-mind-review|title=Dido: Still on My Mind review – serenely pedestrian |last=Morris |first= Damien |website=The Observer |date=10 March 2019|accessdate=11 March 2019}}

| rev5 = Pitchfork

| rev5Score = 6.6/10{{cite web |title=Dido: Still on My Mind Album Review|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dido-still-on-my-mind/|website=Pitchfork |last=Anderson|first=Stacey|date=13 March 2019|accessdate=14 March 2019}}

| rev6 = PopMatters

| rev6score = 8/10{{cite web |last1=Blum |first1=Jordan |title=DIDO REMAINS SINGULAR AND SPECIAL ON 'STILL ON MY MIND' |url=https://www.popmatters.com/dido-remains-singular-and-special-on-still-on-my-mind-2631509244.html |website=PopMatters |accessdate=25 March 2023 |date=14 March 2019}}

| rev7 = musicOMH

| rev7Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |title=Dido - Still On My Mind {{!}} Album Reviews |url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/dido-still-on-my-mind |website=musicOMH |accessdate=13 June 2020 |date=8 March 2019}}

| rev8 = Mojo

| rev8score = {{rating|3|5}}There's no leap forwards here but Still On My mind is the sound of a woman playing to her strengths and the good ship Dido remains reassuringly unsinkable. [Apr 2019, p.92]

| rev9 = Q

| rev9score = {{rating|3|5}}A return to form that shares DNA with Madonna's Ray Of Light, it combines Dido's introspection with meditative electronica. [May 2019, p.111]

| rev10 = The Skinny

| rev10score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |last1=Monroe |first1=Tommy |title=Dido – Still On My Mind |url=https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/dido-still-on-my-mind |website=The Skinny |accessdate=25 March 2023 |date=8 March 2019}}

}}

Still on My Mind received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 70 based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".

Dido first announced the single "Give You Up" while answering fan questions on Twitter, and also revealed the title of "Chances".{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/didoofficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor|title= Dido Twitter account|via=Twitter|accessdate=14 December 2018}} Dido later stated in an interview with the Evening Standard that the final track on the album would be a song about parenthood titled "Have to Stay".{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/music/dido-interview-2018-still-on-my-mind-a3996876.html/|title=Dido interview: 'There's never been a night on tour when I wasn't nervous'|work=The Evening Standard|last=McLean|first=Craig|date=22 November 2018|accessdate=14 December 2018}}

Dido performed "Give You Up" live on The Jonathan Ross Show, which aired on 9 March 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_jonathan_ross_show/episodes/14/2/|title=The Jonathan Ross Show|accessdate=8 August 2020|work=Comedy}}

Despite releasing a total of four singles from the album, Dido failed to promote the last three at all, due to being on tour.

{{Track listing

| headline = Standard edition

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 45:27

| title1 = Hurricanes

| writer1 = {{hlist|Dido Armstrong|Rollo Armstrong|Rick Nowels}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length1 = 5:17

| title2 = Give You Up

| writer2 = {{hlist|Si Hulbert|Dee Adam|Rob Agostini|Denny Thakrar{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Hulbert|Adam}}

| length2 = 3:21

| title3 = Hell After This

| writer3 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Ryan Laubscher}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length3 = 3:27

| title4 = You Don't Need a God

| writer4 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong}}

| extra4 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length4 = 3:31

| title5 = Take You Home

| writer5 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong|Nowels}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length5 = 5:05

| title6 = Some Kind of Love

| writer6 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length6 = 4:42

| title7 = Still on My Mind

| writer7 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Laubscher}}

| extra7 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo|Adot Skitz{{ref|b|[b]}}}}

| length7 = 3:04

| title8 = Mad Love

| writer8 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length8 = 2:52

| title9 = Walking By

| writer9 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Laubscher}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|Dido|Ryan Louder}}

| length9 = 4:31

| title10 = Friends

| writer10 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Laubscher|Matt Hales}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length10 = 3:23

| title11 = Chances

| writer11 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong|Adam|Guy Sigsworth}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length11 = 3:31

| title12 = Have to Stay

| writer12 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Laubscher}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Dido|Louder}}

| length12 = 2:43

}}

{{Track listing

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| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 49:20

| title13 = What Am I Doing Here

| writer13 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Laubscher}}

| extra13 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length13 = 3:58

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Vinyl edition bonus track

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 46:37

| title12 = What Am I Doing Here

| writer12 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Laubscher}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length12 = 3:53

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Deluxe edition bonus disc

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 78:00

| title1 = Just Because

| writer1 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong|Laubscher|Pete Miser}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length1 = 4:09

| title2 = This Is Love

| writer2 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong|Laubscher}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length2 = 2:59

| title3 = What Am I Doing Here

| writer3 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Laubscher}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo}}

| length3 = 3:58

| title4 = Hurricanes

| note4 = live acoustic

| writer4 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong|Nowels}}

| title5 = Thank You

| note5 = live acoustic

| writer5 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|Paul Herman}}

| title6 = White Flag

| note6 = live acoustic

| writer6 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong|Nowels}}

| title7 = Give You Up

| note7 = Mark Knight remix

| writer7 = {{hlist|Hulbert|Adam|Agostini|Thakrar{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| extra7 = {{hlist|Hulbert|Adam|Mark Knight{{ref|c|[c]}}}}

| title8 = Take You Home

| note8 = Undercatt remix

| writer8 = {{hlist|D. Armstrong|R. Armstrong|Nowels}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|Dido|Rollo|Luca Luperini{{ref|c|[c]}}|Elia Crecchi{{ref|c|[c]}}}}}}

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