Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
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Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz is the fifth studio album by American singer Miley Cyrus, which was independently released for free online streaming on SoundCloud on August 30, 2015. Opting for an album relying less on computerized elements than her previous release, Bangerz (2013), Cyrus began planning the project in 2013 before Bangerz was released. Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
It 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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Rolling Stone
Pop’s most fearlessly out-there star goes even further, with help from the Flaming Lips. 5
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Billboard
This is her party; she can do what she want. Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz is not a proper party invitation, but Cyrus will allow her fans to sneak in through the back door and light up alongside her.
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Consequence of Sound
Dead Petz succeeds as a spectacle, even if it collapses under the weight of its own irreverence.
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Independent (UK)
A startling coming-of-age record from the former child star.
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The New York Times
As for its intentions: The album is a show of power. It is the next stage of autonomy from a pop star who has been intensely managed and packaged back to her childhood.
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The Guardian (UK)
-completes her transformation into dual-identity star: both provocative tween idol and free-wheeling chaser of the muse.
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SPIN
Miley Cyrus Fakes Her Own Career Suicide on ‘Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz'
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The Guardian (US)
A sweary, engaging self-release.
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AXS
It’s an incredibly organic album
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Entertainment Weekly
Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz is certainly Cyrus at her weirdest and most direct. It’s also a bracing, adventurous album that pushes the outer edges of her pop sensibility without ever losing sight of her radio-readiness.
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AV Music
Musically, it’s often soporific—courtesy of lugubrious tempos steeped in stoned-motion psych-rock and zoned-out electronic grooves, and arrangements that lack rigor—and juvenile.
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The Atlantic
Here it is, a perfect illustration of the difference between self-indulgence and rebellion.
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Time
Dead Petz is a collection of unhurried, un-airbrushed stoner-pop; it’s not a conventional Miley Cyrus album, and it can’t really be judged as one.
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The Know-Denver Post
She’s just being Miley, and Miley wants to be herself as loudly and showily as possible, to blind you with her neon rainbow shine and bust your eardrums with shouts of her every uncensored thought.
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Where Y'at
This album isn't for the faint of heart, those without open ears, or people expecting pop music, but it's free.
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Vulture
Miley Cyrus’s Dead Petz Is Hard to Like, or Even Endure
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Nylon
Miley's grandest rebellion yet: A willing, creative, thought-out, and intentional miss.
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Sound Blab
On the evidence of this album, we finally, finally have a mainstream pop star worth paying attention to.
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Under The Radar
Dead Petz is just more mannered than it tries to appear on the surface, too long, and doesn't end up shaking up much of anything, let alone the artistic ambitions of Cyrus or The Flaming Lips.
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Financial Times
It is an impressive act of rebellion by one of mainstream pop’s biggest names — but, by some strange process of alchemy, it is also chronically boring.
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Phoenix New Times
Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz Is Layered and Fascinating
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Vulture Hound (UK)
Ready for a dose of ‘what the hell is this’? Good news! Miley Cyrus is giving away her new album for free!
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Cosmopolitan
Dead Petz is not perfect by any means, but it is a lot more interesting than anything Miley's done up until this point.
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Pop Matters
Crass, often cringe-worthy and overtly sexual, Miley Cyrus And Her Dead Petz is a fascinating, bloated mess.
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The 405
It's a whole 92 minutes of absolutely cringe, mindless, and flat out bad lyricism and music.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
The playful experimentalism and inherently subversive nature of Dead Petz is enjoyable (in a sickly-sweet way)
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New York Daily News
Miley Cyrus' music has gone to pot.
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COOG Radio
For every throwaway track, there is one that hits hard with cathartic lyrics and performance or vulgar romp-and-stop.
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Mashable
Dead Petz — an independently bold free online album — should be applauded, especially at a time when artists are under intense contractual obligations to produce filtered music that will sell in an unstable market during this evolving digital era.
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Digital America
-Dead Petz has a large collection of strong hooks, cracks, zings, beats, and melodies whose catchiness should cause no confusion.
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Hollywood Life
It’s no secret that Miley loves to color outside the lines, and she achieves that and more with this new album.
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All Music
it's too long and Cyrus sometimes tries too hard, but she uses the freedom this kind of guerrilla release affords to the hilt: freedom to be vulnerable, freedom to be sexual, freedom to make mistakes.
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Montana Kaimin
Sure to disappoint any past Cyrus fans, there is a chance of a cult following due to the pure absurdity of the album.
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Popcrush
Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz is a trippy, psychedelic ramble through a number of moods that sees Cyrus stretch her undoubtedly assured voice into new and interesting pastures.
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The Red & Black
In all, Cyrus and the Flaming Lips have put together one of the most surprising, fluid and sprawling projects of the year.
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The Daily Reveille
Although the record is unfocused at times, it offers strong tracks that would make a more cohesive listening experience — if only the ridiculous and unfitting tracks were eliminated.
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Star 2
Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz is alive and kicking with bizzare psychedelic pop numbers.
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Cliche
Cyrus has created a new version of freedom, refusing to confine herself to live by social norms.
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New Zealand Herald
There's intriguing stuff within this long ramble and Lips followers will find plenty to smile at. It might be Miley's smartest move yet.
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The State Press
There is a lot to explore here, and if anything, “Dead Petz” is Miley’s statement to the world that she is in fact a bonafide popstar with singing talent and songwriting chops to match her avant-garde sex symbol persona.
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The Daily Nebraskan
‘Miley Cryrus & Her Dead Petz’ dull, falls short
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