The “Alleluia” chorus on “Echoes in Rain” and a chant song called “Sancta Maria” draws upon catholic iconography The slow air of “So I Could Find My Way” sounds like a plea to God. Just her voice, layered into choirs, suggests sanctity. Whether singing in English, Gaelic or Loxian, Enya doesn’t need words to express the infinite. Only Enya can turn a hum into a celestial chant. “The Humming” is the opening of her new album, Dark Sky Island, and it’s meant to evoke the spin of the universe. The mood itself is darker, the voice more intimate. “Caribbean Blue” was the pop hit, but….Įnya’s 8 th proper album, Dark Sky Island, was something of a return to form and a shedding of some treacle. The follow-Up to Watermark, Enya’s third album continued and expanded on those themes with the gothic chants of “Afer Ventus” and “Angeles”, more tribal stomps with “Ebudae” and the heartbreaking “Evacuee” one of the few Enya songs with real world concerns, in this case the London Blitz of WWII. It has the hit, “Orinoco Flow,” the best of her “pop” songs, but it also contains the Latin-sung tribal thunder of “Cursum Perficio,” the cinematic expanse of “Storms in Africa” and “The Longships”, and beautiful aires like “Evening Falls.” Every Enya album after this followed the same formula. her second recording, Watermark, is packed with more gorgeous songs and original ideas than all her other CDs combined.
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If you have only one Enya album, this should be it. Which might make you think I don’t love Enya, but I do because when she hits it, as she did most recently on the Dark Sky Island, she creates a sound, a mood and a spirit unlike any other.Įnya has only released 8 proper albums in 34 years, so it’s not too difficult picking out the 5 best. And her pop hits, which she hasn’t had in the US since 2000, became increasingly Disneyesque, beginning with the best one, “Orinoco Flow,” and then declining through thru “Caribbean Blue,” “Anywhere Is” and the puerile confection of “Only If….” Her voice, that beautiful instrument that shares a genetic lineage with her sister, Moya Brennan, is lost in turgid overdubs and indiscriminate oceans of reverb. Then there are times, more with each album, until Dark Sky Island, where she can be trite, even clunky with dated sounds and over-produced, clotty arrangements. Her music is meticulously crafted, her voice a heaven-sent instrument. There are times when she goes to a higher plane, an ecstatic, floating cloud of sound that exists between worlds ancient, future and imagined. I have a certain ambivalence toward Enya. Enya floats in waves of reverberation and synthesizer pads, her multi-tracked voice cascading around her like silken eddies.
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And when directors can’t get Enya, they just imitate her, like the score to Titanic.
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Whether heard in American Express ads or the movie, “The Age of Innocence,” her ethereal choirs and Celtic cadences seem suited to almost any mood. The voice of Enya has become ubiquitous on television commercials and film soundtracks. Enya-The 10th Icon of Echoes: 5 Best Albums