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The album is the furthest away from Hip-Hop and rap, combining the genre with atmospheric folk, electronic jazz, and funk, and singing over it mostly.

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It’s almost like Mac is able to finish the thoughts he had on Swimming in this album. “Circles” gives Mac’s years of work a little bit of closure and resolution. You’ll definitely need that tissue box too. Mac is talking to whoever is listening directly in this song, telling the listener that everything will be okay and you don’t need to worry about it too much. The most poignant line of this song is probably: “I cannot be changed, no/ trust me I’ve tried, I just end up right here at the start of the line/ Drawing circles”. Then again I’m definitely reading into this. It’s eerie to me because for some reason it seems like he knows what’s to come. Then his raspy singing voice comes in: “Well this is what it look like, right before you fall”. I feel like I’m floating in the mellow guitar riffs that sound like a lullaby. He introduces us slowly into the album with a dream-like opening number that reminds me of “Pale Blue Eyes” by the Velvet Underground. I already have a tissue box out and ready. I’ll take you with me through the first half of the album, writing down what comes to my head about the songs and what feelings they evoke in me. I’m sitting on my couch right now and I’m about to listen to the album. Since Jon Brion worked very closely with Miller in the making of this album, he presumably understood the creative vision behind it and tried to follow that through which is what I think differentiates it from other posthumous albums. We simply know that it was important to Malcolm for the world to hear it”.

His family admits that it was a difficult decision to go through with in the Instagram post: “This is a complicated process that has no right answer,no clear path. Yet, this release was intended by Mac before he unexpectedly died.

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With artists like XXXTentacion for example his album was a series of songs that he actively decided not to release when he was still alive and I think that his family should have respected that. Posthumous albums to me are always a morally gray area, because you never know if the artist would have wanted them to be released in this form or not. Something that Mac felt like he was probably doing these past few years, dealing with the pressure of the public eye and his relapses in addiction.

In an Instagram post his family uploaded on Miller’s account, they explain that “Swimming in Circles” was the concept. It’s heartbreaking seeing someone who put so much light into the world die of addiction that he had been trying to overcome for a long time.īefore his death he had been working on a companion album to “Swimming” which was to be titled “Circles”. Thundercat, a good friend of Mac Miller’s said that he had been in his best shape physically and mentally just a week before his death and that no one saw it coming. His death came unexpected and left a lot unsaid and undone. I grieved for days after he died, watched a ton of interviews, laughed with him and cried afterwards. His music has given me strength when I needed it and lifted me up when I was down. Listening to the new Mac Miller album while knowing it’s also the last time being able to do so is sort of daunting.

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