List Price:	$18.98
Your Price:	$13.24
You Save:	$5.74 (30%)
	Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability:	Usually ships in 24 hours


Quantity:	or Buy at Amazon.com

Shopping & Saving made Easy and Social:


	Request a Price Drop Alert			Buy at Amazon.com

Product Details

Release Date:	2005-11-22
Category:	Audio CD
Label/Manufacturer:	Reprise / Wea
UPC:	093624947424

Product Description

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

The Celts
Watermark
Shepherd Moons

The Memory of Trees
A Day Without Rain
Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya

Product Features

Similar Products

		And Winter Came $18.98 $12.93 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Reprise Records
		The Very Best Of Enya $18.98 $14.42 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Warner Bros.
		A Day Without Rain $18.98 $12.88 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Reprise / Wea
		Shepherd Moons $18.98 $17.99 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Reprise / Wea
		Memory of Trees $18.98 $15.30 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Â© 1995 Warner Music UK Ltd. / Reprise Records