<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Miley Cyrus.Columbia Records</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Miley Cyrus released her eighth studio album, "Endless Summer Vacation," on Friday.</li><li>The first half is an incredible display of versatility, but the album fails to maintain momentum.</li></ul><p>Miley Cyrus released her eighth studio album, "Endless Summer Vacation," on Friday.</p><p>It's the much-anticipated follow-up to <a href="https://www.insider.com/miley-cyrus-plastic-hearts-review-tracklist-breakdown-2020-11">her 2020 rock opus "Plastic Hearts,"</a> which Insider praised as "pulsing with intensity and passion" and "the most thrilling vocal performance of Cyrus' career."</p><p>The singer's latest 12-song set is split into two halves: "a.m." captures the "buzz" and "potential" of dawn, while "p.m." is about "slinky seediness, and kind of a grime, but a glamour at the same time," <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpdHLG2Jmzx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cyrus explained</a>.</p><p>Insider's music team (senior reporter <a href="https://www.insider.com/author/callie-ahlgrim" rel>Callie Ahlgrim</a> and senior editor <a href="https://www.insider.com/author/courteney-larocca" rel>Courteney Larocca</a>) listened to the new album on our own, jotting down our initial thoughts track by track.</p><p>Here is what we thought of each song on "Endless Summer Vacation" upon <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/first-listen" rel>first listen</a>. (Skip to the end to see the only songs worth listening to and the album's final score.)</p>