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8.0
99803
8.0 |
Evening Standard
May diminish her superstar status but makes her music more appealing than it has ever been
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8.0
99805
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Finds the 24-year-old in a chilled out space, using her country roots to deliver a love letter to her fiancé, the Aussie actor Liam Hemsworth
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8.0
99946
8.0 |
State
You’ll enjoy the new Miley Cyrus record. Really. You will
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7.0
99798
7.0 |
All Music
If Younger Now seems slightly scattered as it flits from song to song, it nevertheless adds up to a portrait of a pop star so confident of her swagger, she doesn't bother with such niceties as old-fashioned flow
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6.0
99800
6.0 |
The Guardian
It’s all really rather lovely, although too soon to know whether this, finally, is the “real” Miley standing up
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6.0
99804
6.0 |
The Observer
Isn’t a failure exactly – just the sound of Cyrus, or her record company, panicking and hitting “reset”
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6.0
99802
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
If the sprawling Bangerz was a ridiculous rollercoaster of brilliance and appallingness, this concise album is a steady cruise
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6.0
99891
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Isn’t quite the reactionary effort it’s been made out to be
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5.8
99799
5.8 |
A.V. Club
Younger Now’s successes all hark back to her 2009 hit “The Climb” and her humble, country-pop roots. Now that Miley has found her way home, it might behoove her to stay there
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5.6
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5.6 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It's safety, however, renders it somewhat toothless and benign when placed next to not only her previous material, but everything her peers are currently doing
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4.7
99797
4.7 |
Pitchfork
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
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4.2
99809
4.2 |
Consequence Of Sound
If subsequent records don’t take her back out of this comfort zone, in one direction or another, Cyrus might find time in our national conversation increasingly (and justifiably) limited
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4.0
99801
4.0 |
The FT
Younger Now see-saws from 2015’s self-released psychedelic folly Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz with a series of less weird but equally dull songs
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3.3
99866
3.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
The one redeeming quality behind this whole project is Cyrus’ twangy voice, which saves this project from being entirely pointless
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3.0
100081
3.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Tragically and damningly, Younger Now is boring
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3.0
100246
3.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A thumpingly disappointing and consistently milquetoast set of songs riddled with lyrical banality, done-to-death melodies and wispily thin production
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2.0
100085
2.0 |
Spectrum Culture
It’s surreal that an artist whose greatest talent is making an outlandish spectacle of youthfulness has made an album with “young” in the title feel so interminably dull
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