Enya
The Very Best of Enya
Warner
7/10
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The last time I review an Enya album – almost a year ago to the day as it happens – I received a three page letter of complaint all the way from France from a wounded fan with a bone to pick.
This wasn’t your usual letter of complaint mind. I wasn’t called anything nasty, there were no four letter words used (in English or in French) and my manhood was not once called into question.
Instead, my French friend Etienne laid out a number of reasoned and perfectly sane reasons why I might reconsider my opinion.
And while my opinion hasn’t changed, I still that Enya is really really good elevator music, with little or no substance – I am now at least open to the possibility that I just don’t get it.
So the very least I can say about Enya’s Best Of, due for release later this month, is that it is relaxing. More than that songs like Orinoco Flow, Storms in Africa and Caribbean Blue will pull at the nostalgia part of your brain and remind you of the 1980’s – when we were all poor but strangely happy.
Andrew Hamilton
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