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Amarantine - Enya
  • Band Name: Enya
  • Record Label: Reprise
  • Release Date: Nov 22, 2005
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55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

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  • Summary: The singer's first album in five years finds her once again collaborating with producer Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan, and includes three songs in her new made-up language Loxian.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. All Music Guide
    70
    While Amarantine will do nothing to win over the wrongly pegged new age artist's many detractors, longtime fans will find enough moments of serendipitous pleasure to hold them over for another five years.
  2. Uncut
    60
    As an oasis of calm in a world of noise and chaos, it's easy to understand her appeal. [Jan 2006, p.114]
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  3. The New York Times
    30
    The overall effect of "Amarantine" is like drowning in whipped cream. [28 Nov 2005]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 29
  3. Negative: 4 out of 29
  1. CiaranG
    10
    So so beautiful. It's very calming.
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  2. eny'all
    5
    pros: lush quiet songs, smooth too cons: too piano-based, her earlier harp stuff was better, somewut blandly repetitive overview: an "eh" album.
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  3. harryq
    3
    boo. get a hair cut
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