★★★★★
Smith works a nether region 'twixt Beyoncé and Norah Jones, no doubt why she wound up in major-label limbo after her eclectic 2006 debut. The equally adventurous follow-up lands in a new R&B world that embraces oddballs like Janelle Monáe and Santigold, whose stylistic freestyles Smith beat to market. She does sultry and cool well. But the hotter - see the Nina Simone-conjuring "She" - the better.
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-04-23
★★★★★
When you have influences as wide-ranging as alternative, afro-punk and bluesy-tinged pop, oscillated between homes in Georgia and Washington DC and have a vocal range that recalls a Fiona Apple rather than a Ledisi, it's practically a given that you are not a cookie-cutter R&B artist. And over the past seven years too many listeners have been deprived of that uniqueness that is Alice Smith...
- www.soultracks.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
If AM radio still existed, Alice Smith's breezy, butballing break-up ballad "Do I" would be amplitude modulation like a mug. Her debut aims to win back the soul of pretty girl pop and it's an honest effort. Where "Do I" is sulking and sad, "Woodstock" is lighter, nicer.
- www.urb.com
2010-02-13
★★★★★
If you missed Alice Smith's first debut album, catch up with her second debut album. Epic has just released the same album Smith made last year for BBE. No matter. As far as I'm concerned, this New York singer can release anything she wants. Her supple, four-octave voice slides easily around blues, traditional R&B; and soul. Smith wrote four of the songs on the album, and Imani Coppola, who also sings backup, offered two more...
- www.sfgate.com
2009-11-06
★★★★★
On this major-label version of her 2006 self-released debut, the NewYork City singer-songwriter deals in the sort of timeless neo-soul thatrecalls multiple throaty chanteuses of yore. And her instrument ? afour-octave voice ? is a knockout, though the album, For Lovers, Dreamers & Me is largely a showcasefor woozy bedroom grooves in lieu of Star Search melisma...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Early to rise, early to bed.
In and between I cooked and cleaned and went out of my head.
Going through life with blinders on, it's tough to see.
I had to get up, get out from under and look for me.
There's a new girl in town, with a brand new style.
She was just passing through,
but if things work out she's gonna stay awhile ba ba bum bum bummmm
-- Theme for TV Show Alice, Alan and Marilyn Bergman & David Shire
If you're like me, and you still love R&B and hip-hop, you...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
It's hard to place Alice Smith in a box. Sure with such a soulful voice, it would be easy to dismiss her as some Alicia Keys wannabe, but her genre-hopping debut, For Lovers, Dreamers & Me, is far too broad for that comparison to fly. There's a demure quality to her that recalls chanteuses like Norah Jones and Sade, but Smith's album also includes quite a degree of fury. So just how do you describe the 27-year-old sultry songstress? Is she a soul singer? A rocker? A jazz enthusiast...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
★★★★★
Alice Smith has the voice of a soul singer: a four-octave range and remarkable control, versatility, and emotion. And yet, or maybe because of this, her songs hardly fall into the soul, or even neo-soul, category. Instead, they circle from rock to blues to pop to R&B; to jazz, never settling fully into one before a new chord, a new phrase, or a new verse will change the feel completely. "Woodstock," for example, starts off with a soft organ and an India...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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