Sleeve: Photo montage of Dido’s face makes up her name on an otherwise plain white cover.

Sleevenotes: None available on preview disc. Somewhat fittingly, it’s bland but effective.

Content: First disc has 18 tracks, featuring Eminem’s Stan and Faithless’s One Step Too Far. Among her own hits are all the big ones – Here With Me, Thankyou, Life For Rent and White Flag – but also plenty unfamiliar to those who stopped buying her stuff after the first album. Second disc contains 13 remixed tracks by artists likely to be unknown to Dido fans.

High points: Her unmistakeable voice, and there’s no denying the heartfelt nature of her songs, a quality missing from most current chart music. Like James Blunt, it may not be fashionable to like Dido, but it’s often difficult not to.

Low points: Majority of the remixes.

Any glaring omissions? No.

Anything new? One dance-y track, NYC, finishes first disc, plus those remixes, which are not exactly dance, not exactly trance, but very Ministry Of Sound Chill Out.

Cheerful or tearful excuse for release? Not cheerful, but pleasant enough.