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Phillips and Wareham manage to toe just the right line between diverse arrancements and album-wide cohesion - it's a little like listening to Luna in an alternate universe where they only play weddings and bar mitzvahs.
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L'Avventura is a pleasant side-trip, a chance for Luna fans to see Dean let his hair down for 40 minutes.
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UncutIf--as you should be--you're in love with Luna... you'll come over all swoonalicious to this subtly sparkling spin-off. [Dec 2003, p.130]
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Q MagazineThey even give Madonna's I Deserve It a new level of dignity. [Jan 2004, p.118]
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MagnetAn exciting blend. [#59, p.103]
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It doesn't travel any really adventurous ground, but it's a solid little entry for hot weather.
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Despite some great moments... L'Avventura never quite comes into its own -- there just aren't enough perfect Phillips/Wareham moments here to cash in on Romantica's promise.
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It could have been much more, but for what it is -- a blissful summer excursion -- L' Avventura is delicately delightful.
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Warehams sideline fantasy life becomes the Luna fans candy-infested playground.
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On paper, the album sounds like more of a lark than it is: In terms of production, it rivals any Luna disc, and since it's a one-off, it's freer to roam outside the band's sound.
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It all seems lushly romantic, like watching a movie where two beautiful people fall in love with each other, with a few inevitable but brief stumbles along the way.
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Like all Luna family projects, L'Avventura has a sneaky way of getting its claws into you-- background music that gets stuck in your forebrain. But also like most Luna product, this little vacation from the less-talked about half of the band starts to bend under its own uniformity of mood somewhere in the second half, and probably would've been slightly better acclimated to EP length.
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A duet record for the new millennium.
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L'Avventura is suitable for playing in grocery stores, Starbucks and parties where you don't want anyone to complain about the music -- because it goes unnoticed. It's as if someone made a mix CD of Mazzy Star's least memorable material.
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Rolling StoneHas a hazy, romantic feel. [10 Jul 2003, p.66]
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Entertainment WeeklyThis gorgeous side project... describes a universe of wounded romantics and lost souls wandering in Wareham's sophisticated murk. [13 Jun 2003, p.97]
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MojoAural absinthe. [Jul 2003, p.115]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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WayneLJul 12, 2003Excellent!
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[Anonymous]Jun 26, 2003Stick with Luna. These tracks are pleasant but soulless and bland. All of Dean Wareham's character goes to waste here.
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stevetJun 19, 2003I love tracks: 1,2,3,8 & 9