★★★★★
The Ney Yorican Bachata band Aventura produced a "Master" Bachata CD with some of the most exciting and romantic Bachata mixes of this century. "The Last" surpasses the wildest dreams of the most hopeless romantics. The first two songs on the album, "Dile Al Amor" (English: "Tell The Love") and "Por Un Segundo" (English: "For One Second") have already been huge hits for months on hundreds of Salsa and Bachata dance floors around the globe. In the first one Romeo gives advices to Cupid...
- www.onlinesalsa.com
2011-01-18
★★★★★
Though the bachata genre is pretty young and music lovers are still getting to know its first generation, the youthful Dominicanos of Aventura and their huge peer fan base are ready to be recognized. Generation Next, the debut album of the Washington Heights-based, Dominican Republic-born quartet Aventura, marks the beginning of a new era for Dominican pop music...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
For their third album, Aventura truly mix up styles, from Dominican bachata and meringue to R&B;, pop, and hip-hop. While they want to appeal to the boy-band crowd (perhaps a little late for that, though), they certainly don't succumb to cookie-cutter syndrome on this disc. The arrangements are stripped-down, and often unusual, whether on the tortured "Hermanita" (about domestic violence) or the self-aggrandizing "Deja Vu...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Despite the title, with 2005's God's Project, Aventura continues to define their own destiny. In fact, with their widespread popularity and the outpouring of groups who mimic their distinctly New York-influenced bachata, they may be helping to define the genre, as well. Under the clever guise of a boy band lurks some genuine musicianship, particularly evident in Lenny and Mikey Santos...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27