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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

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3

3.5

Staten Island, NY, USA

February 12, 1989

If it sometimes edges toward "wallpaper music," then at least it is pretty enough to make the room it fills seem a bit more cozy and warm.

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4

4/5

3.5

Springfield, MA, USA

February 20, 1989

I detect a lot of integrity on this record.

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2

1.5/4

3.5

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

February 22, 1989

Enya sounds like she's eternally stuck in the soundtrack of a dreary foreign film, replete with echoing choirs and airy synthesizer passages.

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2

2/5

3.5

Daytona Beach, FL, USA

February 25, 1989

Most radio listeners look for more in their music than a cure for insomnia.

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5

4.5/5

3.5

Omaha, NE, USA

February 26, 1989

Atmospheric, often lonely and ethereal, yet always warm and friendly.

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4

4/5

3.5

Omaha, NE, USA

February 26, 1989

The album, while promising to give the singer the recognition she deserves, indicates her sound may be drifting away from the spiritual thrust of the earlier album.

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2

C

3.5

Meriden, CT, USA

February 26, 1989

No thrill here, not if you want to stay awake.

Jim Zembora

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4

3/4

3.5

Troy, OH, USA

March 3, 1989

A beautiful album.

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2

3.5

New York, NY, USA

March 5, 1989

30H

The singer's calm, lovely soprano lends a quietly expressive center to meticulously built-up instrumental chorales whose surface scintillation cannot obscure a certain lack of depth.

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1

3.5

Regina, SK, Canada

March 8, 1989

If the world judged the Irish by this album, the symbol of the happy-go-lucky Paddy would be replaced by a dour old coot.

BIRD'S EYE VIEW

BIRD'S EYE VIEW

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