While GQ's Colin Groundwater said that "Miami Memory is an unabashed love record that explores relationships at their most sentimental moments and their wildest extremes", Anna Gaca of Pitchfork said it is "more outrageous than romantic". Writing for Exclaim!, Luke Pearson said that Miami Memory is not as good as Cameron's previous release, Forced Witness, but that it is a "mature and surprisingly au courant album that grapples with complex social issues in a commendably fearless way."
