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80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. Mojo
    Apr 17, 2025
    80
    The 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]
  2. Record Collector
    Apr 17, 2025
    80
    Anxious shows she had a genuinely effervescent talent, [May 2025, p.105]
  3. Apr 17, 2025
    80
    Smith was only getting started on Anxious, and its poignant, eloquent peek into teenage girlhood is something to be cherished.
  4. Apr 17, 2025
    80
    As 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.
  5. Uncut
    Sep 8, 2025
    70
    Smith 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]

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