If you were cynical, you might think releasing a posthumous, pieced-together Mac Miller album 16 months after his passing from an accidental drug overdose would be just one more part of the current…
album 16 months after his passing from an accidental drug overdose would be just one more part of the current death march of releases from deceased young rappers with pleadingly emotive lyrics and sonically rock-ist edges.
And while each ensuing album delved deeper into probing, psychotropic-tinged despair and amorphically mutated psychedelic soul , by the time he got to his boldest album to date, 2018’s “Swimming,” Miller seemed OK. Then Miller died in September 2018 with the promise of a bright musical and personal life, and further sessions with “Swimming” producer ahead of him. To be called “Circles” , the already-started new recording would act as a continuation of the pair’s rich, full work as well as Miller’s own AA-like lyrical credos rippling with lower-case glee and tipped with cheery cynicism. Ill, but up. Not down.
The piano starts off drinking on “Everybody,” with a squeaking, slurring Miller ticking off what must happen to us all regarding death and love, before turning the track latter-day Beatles-ish and Ringo-rhythmic with a double tracked snare snap courtesy Brion and Tony Royster, Jr. Miller allows himself several charming vocal inflections once the Fab Four break comes in, a singing-rapping trick he continues on the next track “Woods.
Where “Swimming” was brimming with session musicians such as Thundercat, Steve Lacy and John Mayer doing laps across the watery sound bed, the stripped-down affair of “Circles” is all but Brion alone with just a few accompaniments from the Revolution’s Wendy Malvoin, Soundgarden/Bowie drummer Matt Chamberlain and select friends. What this tight team does is turn “Circles” into an intimate daytime affair — a micro-boogie wonderland — as opposed to the midnight pool party of “Swimming.
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