Mac Miller – Circles
Label: | Warner Records Inc. – none |
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Country: | US |
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Genre: | Hip Hop, Funk / Soul, Blues |
Style: | Conscious |
Tracklist
1 | Circles | 2:50 | |
2 | Complicated | 3:52 | |
3 | Blue World | 3:29 | |
4 | Good News | 5:42 | |
5 | I Can See | 3:40 | |
6 | Everybody | 4:16 | |
7 | Woods | 4:46 | |
8 | Hand Me Downs | 4:58 | |
9 | That's On Me | 3:37 | |
10 | Hands | 3:19 | |
11 | Surf | 5:30 | |
12 | Once A Day | 2:40 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Conway Studios
- Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Credits
- A&R – Jeff Sosnow
- Mastered By – Patricia Sullivan
- Mixed By – Greg Koller
- Producer [Associate] – Victor Wainstein
Notes
"Everybody" is a cover of "Everybody's Gotta Live", a 1972 song written and performed by Arthur Lee.
Other Versions (5 of 23)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | Circles (12×File, MP3, Album, Stereo, 320 kbps) | Warner Records Inc. | none | US | 2020 | ||
New Submission | Circles (CD, Album, Deluxe Edition) | Warner Records, REMember Music (2) | 093624905998 | US | 2020 | ||
New Submission | Circles (CD, Album) | Warner Records, REMember Music (2) | 9362490599 | Australia | 2020 | ||
New Submission | Circles (2×LP, Album, Clear) | Warner Records, REMember Music (2) | 093624905592 | US | 2020 | ||
New Submission | Circles (2×LP, Album, Clear) | Warner Records, REMember Music (2) | 093624905592 | Europe | 2020 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- Love, love, love this album. Listen to it all the time, so much I need to buy a second copy. Very nice sound quality, but they really dropped the ball on the sleeve. It just feels low quality when it deserves so much more.
- 9/12
This album is very relaxing and calm. It feels exhausted. It feels posthumous. RIP Mac Miller. You were a beautiful artist. We hear the depression in your voice.
"Good News" is the key song here and means so much more coming out this year. We all need and want to hear good news. Everything is going wrong.
I also listened to the deluxe version and couldn't miss the unmistakable bass riffing of Thundercat. Happy to hear that legend on the album.
The only problem with the album is that it all blends together and is a bit forgettable. But, that also compliments the chill vibe of album and serves as a great album to put on in the background or as something to just relax to.
ALBUM ARTWORK: I love this cover. It's a beautiful and depressing portrait of Miller in monochrome. The photograph is iconic and memorable as it is. But, the doubled overlay makes the cover seem so much more concerned and confused and absent from the world. Just as he is absent from the world literally, the feeling of the music is out-of-body. Like we're chilling on a cloud or floating around like the low-opacity Miller on the cover. With the same spiritual theme, even though he's gone, it goes to show he lives inside us and still exists in spirit.
Artwork rating: 11.5/12 - I just won a test pressing of this record in a giveaway at my local record shop. It's a good album and definitely worth listening to.
- Edited 4 years agoWhile I don't necessarily agree with everything in DJCVR's take on Circles. I do agree that this record was very much the next distillation of Mac Miller thorough the guise of Larry the Fisherman. Future critics and music historians will one day look back at the Mac's posthumous work and the immediate works that he had prior and see it as a demarcation for a second maturation of hip hop. I agree with DJ's opinion on Post's demonization for doing what Mac Miller did, but I do disagree with the beats feeling looped. Jon Brion and Guy Lawrence of Disclosure definitely kept it from being thus. There are some interesting textural finishes that are definite signs of Brion's influence, as they were working on much of the record together, while paying respect to the original recordings.
If anything, this album should stand fast critically as a marker of Mac's knack for arrangement and genius level understanding of having his vocals take on the metronome of the track and having the arrangement fill in the texture. While other artists in the genre are indicative of this, his voice or perhaps the way it was mastered, takes on the identity of being another instrument in the arrangement.
This is hip hop on another level.
It's taken what was bastardized by the mainstream artists... flipped it through the prism by which hip hop was born -- jazz, soul, funk, classics, etc -- and turned it back in on itself. I'm still unpacking parts of this album when I get time to listen to it.... and for someone that got to work with his label and camp, definitely the best posthumous release by an artist that paid the most respect to a past body of work while informing musicians takes on what a genre can be in the future. No disrespect to DJCVR, I just have a different take, and if given the chance we should record a conversation about it.
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