ENYA
OVERVIEW
REVIEW
Watermark
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.
1988
Watermark
4
4/5
3.5
Springfield, MA, USA
February 20, 1989
I detect a lot of integrity on this record.
1988
Watermark
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.
1988
Watermark
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.
1988
Watermark
5
4.5/5
3.5
Omaha, NE, USA
February 26, 1989
Atmospheric, often lonely and ethereal, yet always warm and friendly.
1988
Watermark
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.
1988
Watermark
2
C
3.5
Meriden, CT, USA
February 26, 1989
No thrill here, not if you want to stay awake.
Jim Zembora
1988
Watermark
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.
1988
Watermark
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.
1988