ENYA
OVERVIEW
REVIEW
Amarantine
3
2.9
Washington, D.C., USA
November 23, 2005
C5
What's left is the music's epic sweep and the crystalline beauty of Enya's voice. Neither is insubstantial, nor particularly arresting.
2005
Amarantine
4
2.9
Hartford, CT, USA
November 24, 2005
It's hard to imagine music more reassuring than this.
2005
Amarantine
4
2.9
Boston, MA, USA
November 25, 2005
By drawing on a mix of innovative and classic elements, Enya continues to reinvent her musical enchantments.
2005
Amarantine
2
C+
2.9
Boston, MA, USA
November 25, 2005
Enya's albums have begun to approximate an assembly line.
2005
Amarantine
3
2.9
London, UK
November 25, 2005
Much like the rest, except that instead of Gaelic, she sings in a new, invented language on a couple of tracks.
2005
Amarantine
2
C
2.9
Fort Worth, TX, USA
November 25, 2005
Enya's music clearly speaks to her fans; it's just that she's already had this conversation with them.
2005
Amarantine
2
1.5/4
2.9
Miami, FL, USA
November 25, 2005
Without a memorable, outstanding melody, her music just becomes boring background fare.
2005
Amarantine
3
2.9
New York, NY, USA
November 26, 2005
64
Calm and relaxing almost to a fault.
2005
Amarantine
3
2.9
London, UK
November 26, 2005
Doesn't sound any different to anything else she's produced in the past 18 years – occasionally vigorous like a facial scrub, but mainly melodically soothing.
2005
Amarantine
1
2.9
New York, NY, USA
November 27, 2005
It's snail-slow, wildly overproduced and full of brain-deadening odes to falling snow, babbling rivers and calming rain
2005