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Feb 25, 2013Moving toward more mainstream sounds makes this album some of Autre Ne Veut's most distinct and confident music yet.
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Feb 26, 2013An album where Ashin fearlessly reveals himself as a person and an artist and dares you to open up in the same way.
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UncutMar 1, 2013Anxiety's blend of heaviness and gloss is unexpectedly affecting. [Apr 2013, p.67]
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Mar 1, 2013The veritable smorgasbord that forms this album is made up of a great many influences, but when all of them are put together, the result is a musical statement that’s innovative on every imaginable level.
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Feb 25, 2013Anxiety moves between smooth grooves and kaleidoscopic electronics, but it’s the sensual vocals that carry the record.
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Mar 4, 2013While Ashin is clearly a major talent, he just needs to dial it down from time to time if he’s to deliver a wholly satisfying record.
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Mar 1, 2013Despite subjecting himself to psychoanalysis and attempting to purge himself of ego, Ashin has created something emphatically empathetic out of his inner turmoil. He's going through it like everyone else, but the very personal Anxiety is remarkably messy, dramatic, poignant, and at times, beautiful.
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Feb 25, 2013Although this is at times a frustratingly inconsistent demonstration of his talents, Autre Ne Veut is still one of the more accomplished acts to have emerged from the bedroom R’n'B/future pop/whatever niche.
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Mar 5, 2013Throughout Anxiety, tracks fail to resolve--“Counting,” “Promises,” “Gonna Die”--and initially I thought it was a songwriting flaw, coming on so fantastically strong there was nowhere left to go. But .... On multiple listens none of this plays accidental--songs run aground as a means of setting the next episode in motion.
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Feb 28, 2013Ashin raises the bar. He relinquishes his inhibitions on Anxiety, an R&B diamond in the dense, desultory rough.
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Mar 5, 2013This is an album of climaxes and cathartic streams of consciousness, but an album listenable from start to finish.
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Mar 1, 2013The lack of vanity, the frank way it strives for accessibility only serves to further magnify the greatness of Anxiety. It does the most ideal thing art can do: it tries to make sense of life itself, without pretense or guile.
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Mar 5, 2013The highlights are somewhat front-loaded; Autre Ne Veut’s schtick begins to wear by the end.
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MagnetMar 15, 2013Anxiety is the rare electro-pop album that's wholly synthetic, but plays without a hint of icy artificiality. [No. 96, p.53]
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Oct 4, 2013Anxiety has a healthy appetite for evasiveness, an intimately layered R&B disc that never lets the listener rest too comfortably.
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Feb 28, 2013It’s an entertaining record to hear, but at times a devastating one to listen to.
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Feb 25, 2013Anxiety matches the emotional heights and immediacy of the music Ashin was inspired by, but what arrives from his limitations--as a singer, as a DIY-ist--adds to the record a personal foundation and raw authenticity no amount of budget could erect.
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Apr 2, 2013Many of the songs feel like they're improvised by someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of vocal pop music.
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Feb 25, 2013It grows beyond its deeply emotional roots, to become whatever you want it to be.
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Mar 4, 2013With all its messy emotions, unfiltered memories and contradicting revelations, Anxiety shows that it’s not only possible to write a self-conscious record without the protective shield of anonymity, it can be just as thrilling.
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Feb 25, 2013Anxiety is a draining front-to-back listen; it becomes much more comfortable when one is able to take each track as an individual single. However, there is a reward for making it to the end of Ashin's therapy session.
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Positive: 46 out of 52
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Mixed: 3 out of 52
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Negative: 3 out of 52
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