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Sep 1, 2015Dead Petz offers an uncensored look at Miley Cyrus’ id and it’s a distillation of an artist’s soul that is both rare and wonderful, delivered so effortlessly off-the-cuff that it may occasionally sound haphazard. But there’s always an exacting method to her freewheeling madness.
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Sep 11, 2015[A] strange, frequently beautiful, and unabashedly indulgent album.
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Sep 11, 2015Ultimately, there’s something genuinely courageous and admirable about Cyrus’s ambitions with Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz. Sure, it’s way too long, and flamboyantly self-indulgent; but it’s free, and it’s fun.
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Sep 1, 2015Miley Cyrus And Her Dead Petz is surely the weirdest album made by a massive pop star in recent memory, but more impressively, it's also an essential listen.
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Aug 31, 2015Her latest has a surplus of them [uniformly great songs]. It suggests Cyrus, at 22, has figured out how to present her views in a way that’s still powerful but also musically interesting and cohesive.
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Dec 22, 2015Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz needs an editor, but there's more than enough worthwhile music here to transcend shock value.
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Sep 3, 2015Most of Dead Petz sounds pretty much like the Lips' latter-day output--she aims for Coyne-like high notes that don't suit her lowdown voice. But she scores wacko successes like "Milky Milky Milk," "Cyrus Skies" and "Slab of Butter (Scorpion)," along with cameos from Big Sean, Ariel Pink and producer Mike Will Made It.
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Sep 17, 2015While not everything here succeeds (much of the album is, in fact, a sprawling mess of ideas) Cyrus deserves a great deal of credit for unabashedly taking chances with her music, her image, both past and present, and what will ultimately be her controversial legacy within pop music.
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Sep 8, 2015For every 1 Sun--unexpected enviro-pop with a lysergic edge--there are two Miley Tibetan Bowlz, in which Cyrus ululates over the sound of ringing eastern tones.
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Sep 3, 2015For the most it is a spaced-out, blissed-out trip that makes it hard to comprehend that it came from the mind behind Bangerz.
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Sep 1, 2015The playful experimentalism and inherently subversive nature of Dead Petz is enjoyable (in a sickly-sweet way) throughout, yet it’s experimentation is akin to playing absent-mindedly with a shitty synthesizer iPhone app.
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Aug 31, 2015There’s a semblance of a flow to the record’s sprawling track list, but too many songs sound hastily written, and too often Cyrus acts as if her drug trip is more poignant than the average freakout.
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Aug 31, 2015The album could use a hefty dose of editing, annoying to any listener--unless, of course, they’re too stoned to care.
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Sep 4, 2015Dead Petz is a short-lived album by design.
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Sep 2, 2015Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz ends up a collection of fleeting engaging moments sandwiched between a slew of half-formed musical ideas.
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Sep 4, 2015The new Miley Cyrus record is a huge mess, but at least it’s an honest one.
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Oct 5, 2015Dead Petz isn't inherently ugly; in fact, there are many gorgeous moments. These moments tend to not go anywhere, though, and they are surrounded by mostly superfluous and even boring songs.
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Sep 2, 2015Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz is long and slack, stretching many of its 23 songs out of meager ideas, and puts raw faith in the weird or the nonvarnished, as if she had just recently discovered those concepts.
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Sep 1, 2015This album is not very good--and what makes it even worse is that it’s by Miley Cyrus.
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Sep 4, 2015Dead Petz is the definition of a vanity project, an indulgent collection of experiments that exist for no other reason than because they can.
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Sep 9, 2015The resulting effort is a complete mess of an already insipid project yelling to be accepted as otherwise.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 672 out of 948
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Mixed: 47 out of 948
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Negative: 229 out of 948
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