What is Enigma? How can I classify a band that sounds like this, since I've not heard anything strictly like it and therefore any description will be lacking? I guess it doesn't help that they're Romanian.
You'll think of an ocean's powerful sedate waves and a heartbeat throughout the song. Considering the music is streamlined to a minimum, that's a feat. Even the volume and digitalization of the vocals help produce the mental image. That does make the vocals sound a bit drowned out at times, but the song gives the impression that such times are intentional. I'm still not convinced it was the best choice musically, and the voices are perhaps overdigitalized.
The sound is very "wet" (echoing). It's a very calm, soothing, with an oddly comforting dark element. That sounds weird, but I find it more sedate than anything else. "Gravity of Love" isn't intended to exist by itself. Enigma designed LSD: Love, Sensuality, and Devotion to be heard in its entirity as a concept album. Nonetheless, "Gravity of Love" sounds compelling.
Many call Enigma New Age, but that tends to give the wrong impression. Evidently the band comfortably bounces around some different styles and is influenced by them all. Perhaps New Age with a strong underlining beat might describe "Gravity of Love" best. You certainly feel the gravity.
The clean lyrics encourage the seeking of love, but not as a violent tempest. It's more important than that. A line of Latin repeats "O fortune like the moon." The song evidently admits that excess leads to failures that teach you with, "The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom." That line, a twice-repeated whisper, is the most objectionable one in the song.
Music: 5/5
Vocal(s): 4/5
Overall: 8/10
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