Anyway, what the world Canada got was a special Christmas Secrets EP containing the four new tracks. She basically went " The Fame Monster The Christmas Secrets EP is a separate body of work and will thus be available separately from The Fame Amarantine". The typical US exclusive = Target exclusive = worldwide deluxe tracks concept I suppose.īut Enya is a big pop girl after all, and a big pop girl had to release multiple formats for apparently no reason in the latter half of that decade. Listen I don't know the legal aspect of this, but just after a month, the four new songs were released all over the world in the Special Christmas Edition of Amarantine. Oh wait! I'm learning now that both this EP and this new awful 2019 digital compilation were both handled by Rhino. Just like the Only Time Remix single released in the US, the general artwork is so bad that I refuse to embed it, but only if you want to I'll link it here. The result was Sounds of the Season: The Enya Collection, a new EP which contained four new songs + Amid The Falling Snow and that one song, of course. In 2006, Enya was approached by the Target Corporation to record an extended play of Christmas songs that would be exclusively * released in its stores across the United States. Well maybe not ruined, but surely it was a test. Then, as it happens with almost anything in life, the US came in the picture and ruined everything. Mom was keeping us consistently fed with new music every three years max, every album had its fair share of stunners and, most importantly, Christmas music was kept to a minimum amount AKA that one song. Until 2005, us Enya fans were among the lucky ones. What's my favourite you ask? Well, it's this thunderous, epic, incredible monster of a song. Yes, some moments are really really basic, but the production is generally exquisite and the Loxian tracks are still the biggest revelation from her second phase of her career. Amarantine is far from her best but it's not her worst by any means. I discovered what it means to over-play an album.ĭoes anybody care tho about my story? Probably not, so here's my opinion in brief. She was all I listened to back then, so I obviously listened to the album non-stop till I couldn't even bare to hear a single note anymore. It's a kind of experience that will never happen to me again for obvious reasons, but wow what a moment, a moment that is most ĪNYWAY, having an Enya album with no Latin or Gaelic songs, no opening title track, no "3-instrumentals" rule was mind-blowing for me at the time. Basically I went to pick it up knowing nothing about the cover, title or songs. My granma gave me a note as a present (not sure if it was a birthday, the release date doesn't match) and it was basically a "ticket" from a local record shop that allowed me to pick up the album once it was released. I still had to discover the magic of the internet at the time and I didn't even knew it was coming out. She's iconic in her special way.Īmarantine was the first Enya album I got during its release period. The jokes write themselves when it comes to Roma. I liked it as a teenager, but then I found taste.
#Watermark enya album artwork free#
But then you open up the booklet and you're greeted with over-sized Aquiline titles, awkward picture frames and a selection of surely-to-be free Photoshop brushes. You see, I do like the cover it's striking by her standards, even playful. Things we learn here: nepotism results in shit work, and the Ryans just don't have taste. Nicky and Ebony Ryan are credited for the cover concept while Roma, Ebony and Persia Ryan* are credited for the inner booklet. The cover image is the only one to be completely different from the photoshoot.Īmarantine was the first and only Enya album with the album artwork designed in-house. It's pretty much an Only Time - The Collection affair. The promotional photography was shot by Simon Fowler during two days in June 2005 at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, England. I suppose it's easy to guess the colour of the era.