Take one world hit from about 25 years ago, cut it into pieces, shuffle it around and paste it back together in a different order. The result: Echoes In The Rain, the lead single from Dark Sky Island, which resembles Enya's biggest hit Orinoco Flow. That in itself is not so worrying - the incredibly rich Irishman is by no means the first over 50 to fall into self-plagiarism - it is, however, that
… the song actually stands out favorably on her eighth album. With all its Celtic sounds and mystical references, it largely sounds so flat and calibrated that you wonder why Enya made her loyal fan base wait for it for seven years. In an interview, the perfectionist explained that after predecessor And Winter Came, it was time to get away from the recording studio. In the meantime she spent time outside of Ireland, she bought a country house in France and Aigle Studios was renovated. In the end, she just scraped the usual three and a half years on Dark Sky Island. So with the usual outcome. (RME)more
