ENYA’S DARK SKY ISLAND OUT NOW TO
WIDESPREAD CRITICAL ACCLAIM
November 20, 2015 – Enya’s stunning new album Dark Sky Island is out worldwide today via Warner Bros. Records. The album is available for purchase in stores as well as to download and stream via all major digital retailers.
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Critical acclaim for Dark Sky Island:
“With her serene effortless voice and lulling orchestral arrangements… [Dark Sky Island] features the lush strings, harps, and choral arrangements you’d expect to find on any Enya work of proper form.”
– New York Times
“Enya’s heavenly comeback”
– Entertainment Weekly
“Her songs feel sharper on Dark Sky Island than they have in years.” (7.1/10)
– Pitchfork
“Maybe Enya can soothe a weary, overworked, smartphone-addicted, EDM-exhausted populace with her Latin chants and Gaelic grace… she’s back, and as the woman herself would say, Hallelujah.”
– The Atlantic
“Mesmerizing”
– GQ
“The music is relaxing. It’s depressing and, at times, joyful. It is meditative and it is self-reflective. It covers the full span of the emotional canon.”
– The Talkhouse
“Enya, your favorite Irish mystic, is…back Friday with her first release in seven years – the gentle, soothing Dark Sky Island.”
– Mashable
“Her voice is warm and soft, gentle like a spring breeze…”
– Yahoo!
“Enya returns with ethereal style she’s made her own”
– Associated Press
“The Irish songstress has managed to carve a unique spot for herself in the industry… [through] her ambient, ethereal music.”
– Huffington Post
“Enya’s music derives its strength from the fact that it all blurs into a single, hypnotically perfect audioscape. When you listen to Enya you escape to some impossibly relaxed other realm…”
– Buzzfeed
“The haunting [“So I Could Find My Way”] bears all the hallmarks of the Irish singer’s music: Enya’s ethereal vocals, a cinematic bed of sound making up the track and poetic lyrics.”
– Idolator
“The Celtic queen is back! …Sounds like the Enya we know and love!”
– Perez Hilton
“Enya’s timing is perfect. “Dark Sky Island” (Warner Bros.), her first album in seven years, arrives in a chaotic, increasingly violent time, following the terrorist attacks in Paris. Enya’s lush, peaceful soundscapes provide a much-needed balm that soothes without boring… It’s what Enya does best.”
– Newsday
“The album sounds exactly like an Enya album, which is to say, it’s definitely worth a listen. Enya’s fucking great.”
– Village Voice
“We [as human beings] share this unspeakable, tenuous force that connects us to each other’s pain and joy. [This] important, intangible essence-that is what Enya channels into her music.”
– Brooklyn Magazine
“Enya unfurls one lavish, exquisitely rendered sonic tapestry after another: the stately, poignant So I Could Find My Way; the surging lead single Echoes in Rain; the exotic waltz Sancta Maria; and the luminous finale, Diamonds in the Water.”
– Fort Worth Star Telegram
