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Apr 10, 2012The majority of the tracks on her second full-length, Anxiety, teem with chilled vocals, crunchy guitar, and keyboard blurps that move hips to sway before showing their hollowness as soon as one steps off the dance floor.
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Jun 5, 2012[Anxiety] retains all the best things about her debut while expanding on both her sound and style.
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May 30, 2012In its more luminous moments, it also contains enough to suggest that there is still a great album lurking somewhere underneath the Ladyhawke moniker.
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Jun 6, 2012There's nothing on Anxiety so arrestingly new or comfortably familiar.
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Jun 6, 2012The result is a buzzsaw-sharp pop-rock album, full of hard-charging hooks, with one foot toe-tapping in 1978 and the other planted firmly in 2012.
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Jun 1, 2012If this is Ladyhawke trying to find herself, she's tragically lost sight of what made her amazing in the first place.
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May 31, 2012The songs aren't strong enough to make it feel vibrant. Only the chugging Cellophane captures the giddy, filmic qualities of Ladyhawke's early songs.
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May 31, 2012If anything they're more powerful this time.
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May 30, 2012With this second solid Ladyhawke winner, she proves you can make them sing.
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May 29, 2012It's a great pop record with plenty of guts and a sense of reality that is so often missing from records that sound this fun.
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May 29, 2012Anxiety is as tight and catchy as a baseball mitt.
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May 29, 2012While it fails to better its predecessor, Anxiety is a mature, personal and vulnerable release that is both a brave and natural evolution for an undoubtedly talented artist.
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May 29, 2012On the whole, Anxiety lacks the addictive quality of its predecessor, and it's certainly less musically interesting.
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May 22, 2012While Anxiety is not a trainwreck, it's a missed opportunity given the strength of her foundation.
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Apr 10, 2012Pip retains the sizzling electronics and soaring melodies of her first offering, but delivers them like a sultry wrong'un wracked with self doubt, battering drums and attacking every guitar she can lay her hands on.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2012Sadly most of these forgettable songs tend to evaporate on impact. [Apr 2012, p.101]
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MagnetApr 10, 2012These are not tunes created with an eye on the top of the charts, but it only takes about four bars to realize that they should be up there. [No.86, p.56]
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Alternative PressApr 10, 2012Anxiety's songwriting is top-notch--substantial and precise, without sacrificing accessibility or originality. [Apr 2012, p.96]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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