Miley Releases ‘Bass Persuades,’ Her 10th Studio Album and First Under New Mononym

The Miley Bass Persuades album is officially out. Miley released her 10th studio album on September 18, beginning a new recording era under the mononym Miley and delivering a 10-track project that moves between dance-pop, electronic production, rock textures and more intimate love songs.

Bass Persuades is also Miley’s first album under Atlantic Records. The physical release lists nine original tracks plus a closing remix of the title song, while the album features collaborations with Model/Actriz and Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt. Apple Music confirms the September 18 release and identifies MCEO, Inc., under exclusive license to Atlantic Recording Corporation, as the recording copyright information for the project.

Miley Bass Persuades album begins a new era

The album arrives only weeks after the singer began presenting herself professionally as simply Miley, removing Cyrus from the primary branding on her website and social platforms. That change makes Bass Persuades her first full-length release under the shortened name.

The shift does not erase her previous catalog. Streaming services continue to connect the new record to the same artist profile, while the album itself follows Something Beautiful and Endless Summer Vacation. Instead, the mononym functions as part of the presentation surrounding her latest musical chapter.

Billboard independently confirmed the September 18 release and described Bass Persuades as Miley’s 10th studio album.

The album’s title track had already introduced its dance-floor premise before the full project arrived. Across the remaining songs, however, Miley does not remain inside a single club-pop sound. The record moves into balladry, rock and darker electronic production as its track list develops.

Model/Actriz and Andrew Wyatt join the album

Two of the album’s most distinctive collaborations arrive through “Different Religion” and “Neon Signs.” Brooklyn band Model/Actriz appears on “Different Religion,” while Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow joins Miley on “Neon Signs.”

The wider recording credits include several familiar collaborators. Kid Harpoon contributes across the record, while Maxx Morando is also involved in the album’s production and songwriting. Pitchfork’s full credits detail the musicians, writers, producers and engineers behind the individual tracks.

The 10-track physical edition begins with “Bass Persuades,” followed by “Different Religion,” “Let’s Get Married,” “Orbit,” “Aftermath,” “REDLIGHTS,” “Neon Signs,” “Innocent Ways” and “Snow.” “Bass Persuades Remixx” closes the configuration.

The album is relatively compact, but its stylistic range is broad. “Different Religion” pushes into darker electronic territory, while songs such as “Let’s Get Married” and “Orbit” shift the emphasis toward romance. “Snow” closes the run of original songs before the title-track remix.

Watch Miley’s Let’s Get Married video

The album’s release is accompanied by a new visual for “Let’s Get Married,” one of the record’s more overtly romantic tracks.

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Bass Persuades follows Something Beautiful

The turnaround between Miley albums has been unusually quick by the standards of much of her recent career. Bass Persuades follows Something Beautiful, continuing a period in which she has moved between pop, rock, electronic and cinematic influences rather than settling into one fixed sound.

The new album has consequently generated sharply different critical responses. Some reviews have emphasized the strength of Miley’s vocals and the project’s more adventurous electronic passages, while others have questioned whether the shifts between dance music and slower material form a cohesive whole.

Those judgments remain matters of criticism rather than fact, but the breadth of the production is readily apparent in the album’s credits. Slant Magazine’s review, for example, highlights the movement among industrial electronics, pop-rock, balladry and dance-pop while reaching its own critical conclusions about how successfully those elements fit together.

Miley will bring the album to the Hollywood Bowl

The release also precedes a rare pair of full concerts from Miley. She is scheduled to perform at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 16 and October 18, with the limited engagement supporting the new album.

The shows give Bass Persuades a live component without establishing a conventional multi-city tour. That distinction matters for an artist whose recent live appearances have been more selective than the extended touring schedules associated with earlier periods of her career.

For now, the September 18 release is the central development. After introducing the title song earlier in the month, Miley has delivered the complete Miley Bass Persuades album, opening her Atlantic Records chapter with a new name, a compact set of songs and another stylistic turn in a career that has rarely stayed in one place for long.