Enya: Amarantine

I admit it, I enjoy listening to Enya sing. Some of her music is special to me, but a lot of it can be too much of a new-agey muchness.

Currently, I’m listening to a CD I picked up on a whim called Amarantine. We’ve been listening to this CD in the car the last few days, and today’s the first I’ve had a chance to rip it to iTunes and really listen attentively, rather than dividing my attention between half-heard melodies and watching the road roll by with David. I absolutely loved the song she did for the Return of the King, I have that on iTunes already. So I bought this CD, and found that although she doesn’t have “Into the West” on it, she does have several songs in a fictional language, complete with lyrics written with a fictional alphabet.

Well, it ain’t Elvish, but that doesn’t matter so much – I like listening to her sing in Gaelic and don’t know what the hell she’s saying there, either.

In the album art, she’s still working the waifish look with the richly-colored gowns that look like she’s been dancing and has only just this second settled into repose. They fall into these beautifully flowing folds and billows, you see. Voice is still good.

Not many of the songs are standouts, however. It’s pleasant enough stuff, but I suspect I’ll begin pulling some of them off of iTunes after a few listens. A couple of them are keepers, but if this album had been the one she brought out all those years ago, she wouldn’t have broken out the way she did.

iTunes: Enya: Sumiregusa: Amarantine [4:42]