★★★★★
With his first english-language recording, New York salsa star Marc Anthony enters the World's Perfect Boyfriend Contest, Sensitive Category, and he may just breeze away with the gold. Anthony brings his supple tenor and exquisite phrasing to anguished love ballads while retaining much of the salsa orchestration that powered his previous albums...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
P.GIFop music doesn't get much more manufactured than it does on Marc Anthony's second English-language effort, Mended. Armed with a bevy of in-house producers (Corey Rooney, Ric Wake, Dan Shea), Anthony delivers an album's worth of watered-down Latin pop that could just as easily be sung by Ricky Martin or Jennifer Lopez...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
When Marc Anthony conquered America at the height of 1999's so-called Latin explosion, his hit "I Need to Know" outdid previous achievements by Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez by delivering instant-gratification hooks that still sounded authentically Latin. Unfortunately, corny ballads soon followed. After returning to salsa with last year's Libre, Anthony is now back with a new batch of English-language tunes designed to recapture lost pop momentum...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Marc Anthony was a salsa superstar throughout the '90s, long before the Latin pop explosion of the 1999. Once Ricky Martin ushered in a new era of crossovers that spring with "Livin' La Vida Loca," there was a rush of crossover acts, almost enough to make it seem like Anthony was left behind. After all, his bid for mainstream success as the starring role in Paul Simon's Broadway musical The Capeman was undone as it became one of the Great White Way's most notorious failures...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
While it doesn't quite match the dizzying heights of his breakthrough Todo a Su Tiempo, Marc Anthony's third album Contra la Corriente is nevertheless a barnstormer of a record. Anthony is no typical salsa singer -- he's a powerful, bold singer who doesn't follow the genre's traditions. He ignores improvisation and concentrates on love songs, but the very sensuality of his vocals and music is his trademark...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Otra Nota was the world's introduction to a young salsero who later in his career would be crowned king. Even on his debut performance, Marc Anthony has a developed, unique, and individual voice. Though he is still quite youthful here and the album is smoother around the edges than more recent works, it is evident that Anthony has brought quality and passion to his listeners from the beginning...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27