Damn, still need to check this.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

"As someone who never enjoyed Mac's work in the past, would this still be worth listening to?"



honestly dunno man. It's stylistically pretty different than anything he's done, but still obviously a Mac album with all that entails which might be what you dislike. I'd say sample Blue World and Hand Me Downs and see if they do anything for you and go from there

Album Rating: 4.0

First Mac Miller album I've listened to. Blue World is amazing.

Album Rating: 3.5

Guess I should check this

Album Rating: 2.5

I gave it a spin, but I have to say I'm not that blown away by it. Wasn't a Mac fan before, so is that what's impeding upon my ability to "get it"?



Also, genuinely curious, do you think that the fact that this is a posthumous album makes this more emotional for people and, thus, a better album? If this was released when he was alive would it still be getting the love it is?

Album Rating: 3.0

thing is Swimming technically isn't posthumous but since he died a month after, people started giving it that "posthumous album" treatment. since this is a "companion" record, that energy for Swimming will be given to this. the time in between the releases and death is so short too.



and yea you shouldn't feel like you have to be a fan to like it. not like the context behind being a mac fan is huge, just that losing a young talent like that is such shame.

Album Rating: 3.5

A nice record imo

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

@Cosby absolutely no doubt his death changed the perception of this. of course, it would've done anyway, but like I said in the review the way he constantly analysed himself and discussed the possibility of death makes some of his stuff borderline unnerving to listen to, even from like 2014. this being posthumous kind of puts it in a unique position, moreso than other posthumous albums - but it's also just damn fuckin good on its own merits, if you ask me, and actually a complete statement unlike most other albums of its kind

Great review. I’ve never listened to this dude but I think I’ll give this record a shot

Awesome review

Great review. I’ve never listened to this dude but I think I’ll give this record a shot (2). Jazzy rap is probably the most rap I've listened, and Mac is a talent we lost waaaaaay too soon.

Album Rating: 3.0

The album was not complete my dudes therefore this is indeed posthumous to a large degree. A handful of the songs werenr even intended for the actual release of swimming and none of the instruments were recorded. Just because the shell of an album was there doesnt make it a completed project

Album Rating: 3.0

I havent heard his other r&b lite shit so I cant compare it sonically but out of context it sounds very bare anyways, and I've read others more familiar with his work say the same

And yet, I think there's a lot to love about it

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

pots that not correct info at all lol, it was 85% done in Thundercat's own description and a bunch of shit was recorded. Brion's job after Mac died was essentially finishing some overdubs based on convos they'd had, and sequencing the album. calling it a "shell" is wildly inaccurate

Album Rating: 3.0

even TC's assertion could be inaccurate



who's knows how far along it truly was, Mac could've delegated and postponed things had he toured for Swimming

Album Rating: 3.0

Who the fuck cares what thundercat said wtf, Brion himself has asserted that they didnt have the space to record the instruments and all of that was done posthumously to the best of his abilities to recreate macs ideas. It doesnt matter what they did or did not discuss, that is a fact. It is also a fact that a handful of these tracks were not intended for the album and were instead given to Brion by Macs fam. What I said is 100% accurate, and semantics over whether or not being entirely incomplete makes it a shell or not aside, like gyro said, it doesnt need to be glorified in order to be impactful.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

your facts are actually wrong and I think you need to check them again. Brion said there were *some* instrumentals they needed to record in a bigger room that he got around to when Mac died. not sure how you spun that into nothing being recorded, because if you like I can link you 7-8 leaks from the past year that demonstrate every song had a substantial amount of work done, and some are essentially identical to the album versions bar mixing

Album Rating: 3.0

Never spun it into *nothing* being recorded, you did that honey

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

oh and your other fact is also wrong because there's no source on tracks being intended for something else being out on here. all that was said that some songs, I Can See namely, were new to Brion because he hadn't yet been shown them by Mac. that's it. Mac's recording some stuff in private for the same album and dies before he gets to share them with Brion. again, check your stuff before you randomly go popping off at me here.