Enya

Watermark is the second album by the Irish musician Enya, who began her career with the
traditional group Clannad and went solo in 1986. Her first U.S. release, Watermark may
sound overly subtle at first, but it quickly establishes itself as a rich mood piece of broad
proportions. As evidence of Watermark's broad appeal, both the album and its single
"Orinoco Flow" have shot up the U.S. charts – mirroring the album's phenomenal... More >

A new name with a pedigree--she brought her family's upmarket Irish folk concept Clannad into the synthesizer age before leaving to pursue her own economic interests. Whilst humanizing technology, perpetrating banal verse in three languages (I'm guessing about the Gaelic after reading the English and figuring out the Latin), and mentioning Africa, the Orinoco, and other deep dark faraway places, her top-10 CD makes hay of pop's old reliable women-are-angels scam. At least the Cocteau Twins are eccentric. At least ELP were vulgarians. (Grade: D+)