Pitchfork mag das Album nicht sonderlich, der NME hingegen sehr:
In a way, Dead Petz is a fascinating milemarker of pop music in the post-album, post-Internet era: a major pop album that lands with a splash, then sinks like a brick, as ephemeral as the Tumblr culture Cyrus draws from. Maybe that’s the most visionary aspect of Dead Petz: it feels like it was built to disintegrate.
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‚Miley 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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