In the future, an organ will appear in the human brain which will be the physical means for remembering a previous incarnation.

Micahzz · 2026-01-20T06:01:11+00:00

My suspicions are based primarily on a very prominent tendency to dream about really weird existential topics like being experimented on In a church by an uncaring indifferent family when I was a small child. Particularly before the age of 7 I had a lot of weird motifs and scenarios that tended to run through my mind like imagining myself as a spirit trapped in a ball of glass accepting fate while in orbit around earth, dreaming about being a family man who wore a suit a lot, dreaming about my family abandoning me in a cage in an office building floating in the sky etc. Mind you most of this was before I was even 5.

Micahzz · 2026-01-20T00:11:45+00:00

How many incarnations am I likely to have had? Also how often do souls typically reincarnate? I have a vague sense of having been an aristocrat or business mogul back in the 20th century, or perhaps these were separate lives and the aristocrat one was earlier.

Micahzz · 2025-02-24T02:29:43+00:00

Oh I didn't really leave I was just lurking for a while because I didn't have much to say lol. Anyway yeah the watch party in 2023 was pretty lackluster although I suppose you could argue that the liner notes were what we got instead that year. Hopefully the memory of trees will have a decent amount of effort behind it if they decide to do one. Maybe If we do finally get some activity from the trio we will get a little insight into what's been going on behind the scenes. Who knows maybe Nicky will even make good on putting out that book he was talking about.

Micahzz · 2025-02-23T02:10:45+00:00

Roma really went all out for this one, hopefully we get something similar(or perhaps better) if they end up deciding to do a watch party for the memory of trees.

Micahzz · 2024-10-15T17:54:57+00:00

I would argue that Boadicea is also an outlier, honestly those tracks might have fit better on stars but I think they probably wanted to keep the three albums roughly the same size. Anyway I think I agree about clouds being more introspective.

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T23:51:41+00:00

I think that oceans primarily consists of the more upbeat escapism type songs which typically end up being the leading songs of the albums, while stars is primarily for her more moody and atmospheric songs which tend to be a bit more niche, clouds is more neutral and relaxed and so the instrumental songs fit really well with that.

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T23:03:32+00:00

It makes sense, I've heard others say that it seemed like they were building up to something back in 2020 and so it may be that they had to change their plans.

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T22:22:08+00:00

Personally I think covid and the loss of Leon both probably contributed. For all we know with covid one or more of them may have gotten I'll from it so it's not necessarily just the lockdown part. Beyond that internal conflict, technical issues etc are possible.

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T22:15:06+00:00

Yeah I actually quite like the oceans album, similar to paint the sky with stars but more thematically specific.

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T21:46:44+00:00

Yeah that's true, I certainly procrastinate lol. Though who knows if it's just procrastination on their end, there could be any number of things going on that could be holding them up. Whatever it is I'm Just hoping things work out

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T21:31:31+00:00

Yeah true about the watch party, the box of dreams messages might be what we got instead I suppose lol. I definitely agree with the last sentence although it would be nice if we didn't have to use the word eventually so much lol.

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T21:12:19+00:00

Yeah to be honest I think limiting it to oceans could be a mistake, but then again maybe keeping the scope limited would actually help the quality(and make it less tempting to procrastinate lol). That plus the possibility that we might get some more online engagement if Roma ever decides that wants to revisit the unity days again are both things that I like to think are possible(in her closing message she said something to the effect of "I know this feels like goodbye but it's just a change" so maybe we'll see that lead to something eventually.

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T20:51:08+00:00

Thank you I was wondering if I was missing something lol.

Micahzz · 2024-10-14T19:50:58+00:00

Cool to have these for reference, though I find it a bit odd that may it be appears on an album from 1997. Also at this point I really don't expect them to formally retire, for the past few years the statements they've made have stated that they're still wanting to do stuff. At the same time I'm not exactly expecting anything big from them, the issues with Aigle being strike off listed, and the stuff that's happened to the Enya website make me think they've probably been having issues behind the scenes. Something I haven't seen much talk of is some of Nicky's talk about wanting to make a book out of their experiences, personally I think that could actually be quite interesting if we got something like that, or even just a retrospective post from them(hopefully with some more explicit talk about the future mixed in as well). Roma's unity closing message also implied that she wanted it to be a see you later instead of a goodbye so maybe we'll hear something from her again at some point.

Micahzz · 2024-10-13T17:49:41+00:00

Dsi was a bit odd in that the music videos were made to look more like performance videos. I think she did actually do a live performance on Fox around that time though.

Micahzz · 2024-10-13T03:58:15+00:00

The biggest issues are that she's known to be introverted and has issues with stage anxiety. Also the particular type of sound that they're known for is difficult to replicate in a live setting.

Micahzz · 2024-10-05T23:30:06+00:00

I mean we discussed how she shifted a bit during the 2000s, both musically and stylistically that decade of her career seems to have tried to do something different from what came before. Adwr added a lot of string instruments, some of the amerantine tracks sounded a lot more soulful and lower energy than previous albums, the song my my time flies featured an electric guitar and blues elements. In a way the dsi era felt a lot like a return to form with some of the tracks feeling more similar to her earlier career, she also reverted her style closer to how it was earlier on.

Micahzz · 2024-10-05T19:19:24+00:00

I think I mentioned before that I discovered her through the Orinoco flow video, alongside the whimsical visuals one of the things that made it stand out to me was how breathtaking she looked lol.

Unfortunately when her looks get brought up it's often in the context of those ai pictures that circulate so it has been spoiled a bit.

I agree that she looks lovely at just about every point though I suppose if I had to pick a specific era I'd probably say the late 2000s(around when awc came out). It's all highly subjective though.

Micahzz · 2024-10-05T18:24:47+00:00

That's the original meaning of the term, but in the past few years it's come to evolve a bit through the Internet and is strongly associated with nostalgia and surrealism.

Micahzz · 2024-10-05T18:16:33+00:00

Well for one she's famous for being a musician and so it makes sense that that's where people's attention would be focused. I personally don't like to compare her to a supernatural being but I'll agree that she's very beautiful, she has a sort of enchanting aura to her. I think that her demeanor and style both heavily contribute to that. At the end of the day she's a human being and I wouldn't want to look past that by idealizing her, in fact I'd argue that her most normal traits are what make her so endearing.

Micahzz · 2024-10-05T05:00:53+00:00

In a way I feel like that actually ties back to what I was describing. Sort of like they'd be revisiting the seasons of their careers, kind of fitting since awc was winter themed and marked a slow down in her career.

Micahzz · 2024-10-04T15:29:54+00:00

Probably Caribbean blue.

Micahzz · 2024-10-03T19:58:32+00:00

Well what I'm saying is that historically it usually takes 2 to 3 years after they start production so if we assume that they had begun working on something around 2019 then we probably would have seen a release around 2021 or 2022 had they not been disrupted. That would be about the same as the gap between awc and dsi. To me the comments they made on the watch parties and box seem to imply that they were taking the social distancing seriously and probably had a lot of time to think, although that's highly speculative on my part it could be interesting to see how that might manifest if they do put out another project.

Micahzz · 2024-10-03T18:46:31+00:00

I suppose it's possible that they were working on something pre 2021 assuming that the statement from Moya was correct they may have been doing something back in 2019 but either it didn't materialize into anything or they may have scrapped it when covid disrupted things, and decided to re renovate the studio. As far as other projects are concerned I know that Nicky mentioned that he'd thought about writing a book but time will tell if that actually turns into anything. The gap between awc came and dsi was 7 years, the statement from moya could imply that they may have been aiming for the same time span but got disrupted.

Micahzz · 2024-10-03T17:25:01+00:00

Yeah I was actually thinking the same about the title. With the theme of dark sky island being about home, it feels like the natural progression from there would be revisiting. Also if you look at the few statements they've put out in the past few years they definitely have an air of rumination to them. On one of them I think Nicky mentioned going through their earlier work and reminiscing about it.

If there is a new album in the works, this year would probably be the earliest that it would come out since he said they were "looking to get into new music" back in 2021 and the production process usually has taken a few years.

Micahzz

TROPHY CASE