There's always been something about the music of Irish artist Enya, some intangible creative credibility that has kept it from falling into the new age bins alongside Bird Calls of the Andes Set to the Music of Mozart and Spider Monkeys Sing the National Anthems of Eastern European Nations.

Maybe it's because her songs, though often interchangeable and far from challenging, are so hauntingly beautiful. Enya's grand Celtic-coloured electronic compositions, which her operatic vocals bathe warmly inside of, are about mood and majesty and rarely fail to achieve both.

And the former Clannad member's latest release and first in five years, A Day Without Rain, keeps that Orinoco Flow going. Each lush sound collage is crafted with an epic feel, yet rarely exceeds the four-minute mark -- every second is saturated with aural colours and emotions.

Whether it's the title track which has a Tim Burton fairy-tale feel to it, or the Liz Fraser-less Cocteau Twins approach a handful of the other songs take, Enya may in fact be new age, but the ageless quality to her music makes that quite forgivable.

Track Listing 01. A Day Without Rain
02.Wild Child
03.Only Time
04.Tempus Vernum
05.Deora Ar Mo Chroi
06.Flora's Secret
07.Fallen Embers
08.Silver Inches
09.Pilgrim
10.One By One
11.Lazy Days