Music writer for Electronic Sound and the blogs Documentary Evidence and Further. Contributor to Clash. Occasional contributor to Gated Canal Community, Pooleyville.city and others. Press release writer for Vince Clarke's VeryRecords and Nick Hook's Calm + Collect labels. Smith has written liner notes for Sunroof, Erasure, Nous Alpha and Cherry Red.

In 2019, Smith co-founded Mortality Tables, a collaborative arts project covering "sound, arts, words and insurance".