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MojoApr 17, 2025The results are as dreamy and swirling as Clouds Taste Metallic-era Flaming Lips, with Smith's unworldly vocals floating over the top. [May 2025, p.86]
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Record CollectorApr 17, 2025Anxious shows she had a genuinely effervescent talent, [May 2025, p.105]
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Apr 17, 2025Smith was only getting started on Anxious, and its poignant, eloquent peek into teenage girlhood is something to be cherished.
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Apr 17, 2025As with many posthumous albums, Anxious is a deeply bittersweet listen – the knowledge of what might have been casts a poignant hue over the whole experience. However, as a tribute to Smith’s talent, it works beautifully: a fitting memorial to a woman who would have, no doubt, gone onto even better and brighter things.
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UncutSep 8, 2025Smith sees the fragments left behind by an old songwriting mentor - paintings, cups of coffee, the gift of her first guitar - as things to be celebrated, and the same is true of these 10 fragments of herself. [Jul 2025, p.37]