3xLP YELLOW VINYL Faces followed Watching Movies with the Sound Off in just under a year. Considerably deeper and darker than the preceding album, it's classified as a mixtape -- originally a free download, revised and released by Warner digitally and on vinyl -- but certainly has the artistic and emotional impact of a proper LP. Within the sequence are some of Mac Miller's casually boastful and potent rhymes. More often, however, it shows the rapper examining his fragile state, reckoning with mortality, frankly despondent yet still able to construct ingenious cadences with lines like "I'm the only suicidal motherf*cker with a smile on." Miller relates his ascendancy and self-destruction in measured verging on meandering style, occasionally allowing the likes of Thundercat, ID Labs, Earl Sweatshirt, and 9th Wonder to either assist or spell him on production. The beats, energized and bleary only when Miller's self-praise and most addled moments call for it, tend to sound crafted for the sake of alleviating anxiety. A1 Inside OutsideA2 Here We GoA3 FriendsA4 Angel DustA5 MalibuB1 What Do You DoB2 It Just Doesn't MatterB3 TherapyB4 Polo JeansB5 Happy BirthdayC1 WeddingC2 FuneralC3 DiabloC4 Ave MariaC5 55D1 San FranciscoD2 Colors and ShapesD3 InsomniakD4 UberE1 RainE2 ApparitionE3 ThumbalinaE4 New Faces v2E5 Grand FinaleF1 Yeah
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