That doesn’t change here, and perhaps this is a problem. And on this particular visit, we must peer inside the pit, and travel 25 years backward to when her seminal work, 1988’s Watermark, was released, and see what has changed, and what has remained the same.Įnya’s music has always tried to bridge the distance between the imagined and the real, using natural metaphors and theological allusions to augment her reverberant singing. Dark Sky Island sees the 54-year-old Irish singer-songwriter returning once again, in pilgrimage, to the crumbling well of new age ambience. But unlike these natural processes that she so fervently admires, Enya herself refuses to change. It’s always there in every sky-scraping star, in every thorny bramble, in every churning ocean tide. She refuses to ignore the pulsating melodrama she witnesses all around her. Enya’s first album in seven years is a soft-spoken refusal.
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