Amazon.co.uk Review
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
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 Description
An album by Enya has always been an event, rather than just another record release. Yet seldom has any new album been as keenly anticipated as Amarantine.
In the five years since Enya’s last album, A Day Without Rain, which also spent a phenomenal two years on the billboard chart, Enya has been recording the brand new album in Ireland with her longstanding partnership of producer/arranger Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan. The result is Enya’s most rounded and fully realised work to date.
Product Description
ENYA Amarantine (2006 US exclusive Special Limited Christmas Edition 12-track CD album presented in a deluxe red velvet presentation box with gold embossed text complete with 3 Photos and 128-page Water Shows The Hidden Heart book by Roma Ryan which details the story behind the three Loxian language songs on the album inspired by working in Elvish for The Lord Of The Rings movie - shrinkwrap sealed from new & stickered!)
