ENYA
OVERVIEW
REVIEW
Amarantine
4
3.5/5
2.9
San Francisco, CA, USA
Enya has managed to both repeat herself and move forward without losing anything in the translation.
2005
And Winter Came...
3
3/5
3.2
San Francisco, CA, USA
As usual, Enya fans will be pleased with the results while non-believers will find that the same arguments against her are still valid.
2008
Very Best of Enya
4
4/5
3.6
San Francisco, CA, USA
One of those rare “greatest-hits” collections that goes deep without depriving the listener of the essentials.
2009
Amarantine
3
2.9
Sounds like it was born in cloistered solitude, self-referentially echoing Enya albums past.
2005
Amarantine
2
C
2.9
Features many of the qualities that make the Irish singer a regular pop-music punchline.
2005
Enya
4
Esher, UK
March 18, 1987
I found the melodies fascinating with a wide variation of tempo and some unusual harmonies.
Enya
5
4.5/5
Omaha, NE, USA
July 31, 1988
Enya's new-age style keyboards – which sometimes sound like a harpsichord – perfectly accent her crystalline voice for a sound that is both soothing and refreshing.
Watermark
3
3.5
London, UK
September 17, 1988
Weekend FT 23
Sometimes the songs sound perilously close to a soundtrack for a travelogue of Connamara but at their best they are intensely, decoratively, romantic.
1988
Watermark
2
3.5
London, UK
September 30, 1988
Implicit denial of the material world tends to render the music anodyne.
1988