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ENYA

3.6

1987–1992

166 reviews

5 albums

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

2009

Very Best of Enya

3.6

warm reception

polarized reaction

12 reviews →

2015

Dark Sky Island

3.4

mixed reception

mixed reaction

29 reviews →

REVIEW

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

BIRD'S EYE VIEW

BIRD'S EYE VIEW

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