On Faces, you hear Mac Miller, along with co-producers like Thundercat and randomblackdude (Earl Sweatshirt), delivering an array of dreamy, bombastic, jazzy, and psychedelic overtones.

But as I’ve spent the last week and a half revisiting the project, a few things ran through my mind - most importantly, how Faces is in some ways a personification of the many facets of Mac Miller’s artistry.įaces is unlike a lot of Mac Miller projects - it diverges from a tight focus to having loose cohesion with slightly varying production styles. Unfortunately, these samples won’t see the light of day on the DSP releases since clearing them could get expensive in the long run. Thompson, and others as a means to personify his different faces. Unlike Watching Movies, Mac incorporates lines from Bill Murray, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S.

Watching Movies saw Mac Miller juxtaposing his aspirations with themes that embrace the broken humanity inside, despite coming off brash a few times. When Faces came out in 2014, the ethereal levels Mac Miller imposes on himself has given the title a more direct meaning - opposed to forcing his hand with what works, though it’s been somewhat similar since Macadellic.

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