Mixerr Album Reviews #2,402

Enya - Shepherd Moons is a deep soulful new age album filled with calmness and tranquility. Shepherd Moons is her most vocally soulful album from the 1990s era. The album has depressingly darker moments with songs such as Shepherd Moons and Book Of Days. Overall Shepherd Moons sounds more depressing, sad, darker, and suicidal than all of Enya's other albums that have been written by her. Carribean Blues, Book Of Days, and Lothlórien are highlights off of this album.

Carribean Blues uses a calm tropical sound blended in with world music and the lead single for the Shepherd Moons album. The lead single Caribbean Blue does not avoid repeating the successful formula pattern of Orinoco Flow from the last album. Orinoco Flow is what made her previous last album successful similar to how Caribbean Blue made the Shepherd Moons album become successful.

Book Of Days has a dark subtle slow vibe as the piano plays extremely slow. Some of the piano chords and keys seemed to have been sustained for some reason. This song is known for having such as a dark mood.

The title track Shepherd Moons sounds more depressing, sad, darker, and suicidal than all of Enya's other songs on this album and in her discography that have been written by her. Although it is not unusual for Enya to use depressingly darker sounds. Think dungeon chamber music as this song has such a dark mood.

I rate this album 5/5*****!