"On August 30, 2015, after hosting the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus announced that "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz", the free, 23-track experimental album that Cyrus and the Flaming Lips wrote and recorded together, was available via online streaming.The album is described by Coyne as a combination of Pink Floyd and Portishead and "a slightly wiser, sadder, more true version" of Cyrus' pop music output.