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| 3.5 great | Bedex | August 21st 22 |
This is far more of a full record than Sanguine was, with longer tracks (i.e. now they are of regular track length, not just snippets) and transitions here and there - at any rate, far fewer fadeouts, though criminally almost the album does end on a fadeout. This LP is also almost twice as long, and has a slightly more unified style of loopey ambient vocal choral stuff with discrete instrumentation, perhaps a little too unified even as the main fault I found here was lack of variation whereas the strength of Sanguine was to show a breadth of sound from blissful to droney. I lost my notes like a dumb dumb so the details wont be accurate. Tracks like 1-3 feel really nice and showcase the album's style quite well, but by 4 you kind of wish for that style to shift a bit to something else especially given how inherently repetitive it is. This continues on 5 which made my rating drop quite a bit. Thankfully the next few tracks do shift things a bit - only a touch too late perhaps for me - by focusing more on individual instruments, and by making the vocals step back a bit. 6 looks more at the piano, 7 at the guitar, 8 at a synth loops and even a cool drum beat after a while, before 9 eventually comes back to a blissful choral + piano combo that is one of the strongest tracks here but does end on a fadeout. Again I really like her style, I don't think this is the magnum opus I am looking for yet but there are some tracks to rejam. 3.65
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| 3.9 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | February 28th 22 |
woah this indeed sounds like a magic place. This is basically a polyphonic a cappella album with an ambient, poppy, new agey musical background. It's all about the mood. And what a good mood: it oozes the scent of a spring morning. Comfy, even though its comfiness works better in its early stages.
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| 4.0 excellent | Lani | April 26th 13 |
Started out strong, but drug on and could have been better. Then again, I have a strong affinity for the way Enya does things so my perspective may be different than others. Favored tracks: "Envelope" and "The Magic Place"
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| 5.0 classic | FunJan | March 29th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Atari STAFF | December 9th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Polvo | January 11th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | August 1st 20 |
| 3.5 great | doofy | July 31st 19 |
| 3.5 great | Hawks | January 9th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | dunnope | December 20th 18 |
| 3.5 great | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | December 15th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | November 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brandon | October 22nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Denis | October 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | stromz | August 7th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Jade | April 11th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Froot | July 26th 15 |
| 3.0 good | JS19 | February 15th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | lou1000 | October 17th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | sje45 | August 5th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | APJ90 | March 29th 14 |
| 3.3 great | Trey STAFF | March 6th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | mehd10s | January 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | jimgorn | December 29th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | doqtor | October 5th 13 |
| 3.0 good | cuki92 | September 24th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Matski | August 31st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | TheDMV | August 24th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Yoto | June 3rd 12 |
| 2.5 average | JJwins | April 2nd 12 |
| 3.5 great | Iai EMERITUS | February 4th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Troggy | January 4th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | fcmogul | September 4th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Guigss | April 9th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | conradtao EMERITUS | March 3rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | February 25th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Irving EMERITUS | February 24th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shadow17 | February 21st 11 |
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