Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful review – solid pop that’s about as ‘psychedelic’ as a baked potato

The singer’s ninth album has grand ambitions but – despite some sparkling songcraft – falls short of its mind-altering promises and the hits that made her a star

Everyone’s Getting Involved review – tepid all-star Talking Heads tribute

Cult film company A24’s tie-in merch to the seminal documentary Stop Making Sense sounds either like karaoke or is wildly disconnected from the source material

Miley Cyrus: Endless Summer Vacation review – gossip, grit and glorious pop

After years trying to reconcile chart success with her leftfield musical instincts, the singer has delivered a hazily atmospheric album that plays to her provocative strengths

Miley Cyrus: Plastic Hearts review – mock rock

The punky sneer of this post-divorce album feels like an act

Miley Cyrus: Plastic Hearts review – too plastic, but has heart

From floaty synth ballads to punky 80s pop, this album’s middling material doesn’t adequately serve this unusual star

BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend review – electric Stormzy opens two days of non-stop pop

Billie Eilish draws the crowds, Miley Cyrus rejects her previous personas and Slowthai steals the day

Kitty Empire’s best pop of 2017

From Jay-Z to Taylor Swift, it’s been a year of high political and personal drama in the worlds of rap, pop and rock

Miley Cyrus: Younger Now review – goodbye girl in the hood

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

Miley Cyrus: Younger Now review – big-hearted country-pop from Miley v4.0

‘No one stays the same,” sings Miley Cyrus on the excellent title track of her sixth studio album, surely referring to a career of reinventions from Disney child star to Wrecking Ball-era sledgehammer-licking controversies to Dead Petz’s psychedelic weirdness. On … Continue reading →

Miley Cyrus review – new psychedelic direction is a bad trip

Featuring dildos, drag queens and someone dressed as a set of teeth, Miley Cyrus takes her stadium show and crams it into a small theatre, with chaotic results

Miley Cyrus: Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz – a sweary, engaging self-release

Miley Cyrus self-releases a stoned, sweary and engaging curveball

Miley Cyrus review: tackling rock classics at Art Basel with the Flaming Lips

This private show saw Cyrus embark on upscale rock karaoke with psychedelic trappings – but proved that she knows how to sell a song

Miley Cyrus live review – a Duracell bunny of provocative mischief

She's up, she's down, she raunches all around, but scratch the surface of Miley Cyrus's Bangerz show and there's method in her cartoon madness, writes Kitty Empire

Miley Cyrus: Bangerz review – loud, lewd, but still laudable

Other stadium-sized pop acts signpost their maturity with clanging visual references to Warhol: Cyrus dances with a pantomime horse, writes Alexis Petridis

GIRL review – Pharrell Williams turns on the charm

Pharrell Williams tones down the libido and turns on the charm for his latest long-player, writes Kitty Empire