| Amarantine | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 289 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2626
Category: Music
Artist: Enya
Publisher: Reprise / Wea
Studio: Reprise / Wea
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Label: Reprise / Wea
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 49474
UPC: 093624947424
EAN: 0093624947424
ASIN: B000B8QEYC
Release Date: November 22, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Less Than A Pearl | | • | Amarantine | | • | It's In The Rain | | • | If I Could Be Where You Are | | • | The River Sings | | • | Long Long Journey | | • | Sumiregusa | | • | Someone Said Goodbye | | • | A Moment Lost | | • | Drifting | | • | Amid The Falling Snow | | • | Water Shows The Hidden Heart |
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Album Description
The first album in five years from Enya follows the biggest-selling album of her illustrious career, the six-times platinum A Day Without Rain, which transcended all commercial expectations. Having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, Enya is one of the most successful female artists of all time and second only to U2 as the biggest selling Irish artist in history.
Amazon.com
From the first blanket of choral voices awash in reverb, Amarantine is instantly recognizable as a product of Enya, the Irish chanteuse who has created a genre unto herself. Although it's been five years since her last CD, on Amarantine it's as if time stood still. The triumvirate of Enya, lyricist Roma Ryan, and producer Nicky Ryan work the formula they perfected on Watermark, layering her voice in lush choirs pushed along by pizzicato synth strings, swooning orchestral pads, and harpsichord arpeggios. On tracks like "Less Than a Pearl" and "Drifting," Enya flirts with a timeless sound born in gothic chants and hymns. The former is one of three songs that she sings in Roma Ryan's fictitious language of Loxian. It seems to free her, especially on "The River Sings," a veritable rave-up where she gets the tribal choir going in the style of Scottish mouth music. But to get there you have to slog through slo-mo ballads that manage to be dirge-like and singsong at the same time, like the Carpenters on Quaaludes. The relatively restrained arrangement of "It's in the Rain" almost attains a folk-like simplicity that Enya hasn't experienced since she sang with her siblings in Clannad a quarter-century ago. Amarantine sounds like it was born in cloistered solitude, self-referentially echoing Enya albums past. --John Diliberto More Enya 
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| Customer Reviews: Read 284 more reviews...
 SUX April 28, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I dunno why I haven't written a review on this piece of junk before. I've only owned it since it came out. In fact, I pre-ordered it before its release since I'm a super Enya fan and listen to the "other" CD's often. But this one - I've listened to it once again to see if it was as crxxpy as i had remembered. IT WAS! Maybe if I start listing things on the net, I'll be able to unload this and make space for good music.
 Excellent for your Enya collection! March 31, 2009
It has been quite some time since Enya released her previous album, not counting singles and movie tracks. Get this CD. Enya is not going to change her style, which you wouldn't expect of ANY artist, and that's what I like about her. Her voice continues to sound excellent, and the non-vocal tracks are just as pleasant.
Aside from the cover song, "It's In the Rain", "Someone Said Goodbye", and "Amid The Falling Snow" are my favorite. As I write this review, I wish I had that CD in my hand to play right now!
Enya Supreme January 6, 2009
While occasionaly criticied for the "sameness" of her sound, when it is this good, why not? There is not the duplication one finds on several of her other CDs. All new...all good. A gifted voice for all to enjoy. Easy listening.
 I woke up with a generous heart today November 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was curious about Enya when I first heard of her; due to my love to U2's music and knowing that Enya became Irland's second biggest musical export after U2 (she's from Irland, such a bad stereotype on my part).
There's no way one's can deny her beautiful voice and remarkable style, but I came to think that all her music has the same redundant theme when it comes to lyrics or music.
This album reached the top 10 in both the UK and the US, peaked at number 3 in Germany, won the Grammy award for best new age album for 2007, and I'm in disbelief and trying to understand what is so special about this album.
The reason I'm giving it three stars is that she is a hard working artist with glorious presence on the stage(at least she's not winking at the audience and acting cheesy like il Divo boys). With the inimitable style she has, maybe it is expected to have a theme in all her albums, but the lyrics of this album don't measure up to the standards she had in her other albums and they are either too repetitive and empty or just beyond my mental capacity. I'll go with the first choice; the lyrics are repetitive and empty.
A Wonderful Addition October 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have listened to Enya's Music since Watermark and I love every Album she has come out with. Amarantine is a wonderful piece of Art, making up a new language is the coolest part of this album. Not to be mean to others, but there are wrong when they say that this her worest album yet!!!
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