How did she do it? We’ll never know, but there’s something so haunting about the way A Day Without Rain encapsulates the fears and thoughts felt across the world in 2020 that it’s hard to believe the album wasn’t written in response to COVID-19. Twenty years after its release, what was once seen as complex and beautiful feels like an unfortunate and fragile prophecy that paints Enya as an unaware soothsayer. And the album is more relevant now than ever. Revealing an astounding dedication to her craft, every sound you hear, every instrument played, was done so by Enya. Released on 20 November 2000, A Day Without Rain, is an elegant body of music that shaped its own curious genre in order, becoming her most unique album to date. One of the only good things to come out of it is realising Enya could predict the future – though, if her astoundingly prescient fifth album, A Day Without Rain, is to be believed, things are not going to improve anytime soon.
2020 has been a bad year, to say the least. Instead of fulfilling industrious resolutions and heading back to the gym, however, we have been gifted with a worldwide pandemic and never-ending examples of how idiotic governments can be. The move into a new decade was meant to be a real chance to put the past behind us and become the best versions of ourselves. The 2020s have had an inauspicious start.
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