Younger Now

Bland production and weak songwriting hamstring the personalized nature of Younger Now, making it merely a suggestion of the kind of artist Miley Cyrus could be.

It’s been obscured now by all the twerking and Wayne Coyne collaborations, but Miley Cyrus’ origins lie in country music. On her new Younger Now, the best cuts are the ones where she clings to those still-strong Tennessee roots. Here she even duets with godmother Dolly Parton—preceded by a voicemail from Parton, so we…

'Younger Now' is a glossy mainstream version of the Nashville sound; but Miley Cyrus' version of country music retains her edge.

Miley Cyrus took the child-star-gone-bad thing about as far as she could around the time of her 2013 album, Bangerz, then missed the charts altogether with her stoned Flaming Lips dalliance, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz.

Miley Cyrus and Shania Twain explore the expansively chaotic world of contemporary country pop on their new albums. Our take.

It's another reinvention for Miley, as she ditches the drug-fuelled psych-rock and half-heartedly embraces country music

Younger Now is a bit of a sly nod to a public who watched Miley Cyrus explore a defiantly loud post-adolescence: she may be older, but she's not necessarily grown up.

The pop provocateur plays safe on her new album, abandoning R&B in favour of country-pop

Miley Cyrus’s sixth album, Younger Now, isn’t quite the reactionary effort it’s been made out to be.

How do you solve a problem like Miley when Miley has decided that she’s no longer a problem—or at least problematic?

Miley Cyrus - Younger Now review: It’s a shame about that waste of Dolly Parton...

The singer’s new album is like a bunch of love letters to Liam Hemsworth from a chilled-out space

With the hype subsiding, the former child star seems to be going back to her roots. CD review by Joe Muggs