A deluxe edition of Mac Miller‘s posthumous album, Circles, will be released this Friday (March 6.) with the addition of two new songs, “Right” and “Floating.” Miller’s family made the announcement yesterday morning (March 2.) in a press release.
The Circles deluxe edition, will be released on CD this Friday, and will be available for streaming on March 20, and a vinyl edition will be available on April 17.
Miller had just released his album Swimming, a month before he died of a fatal over dose in September 2018. At the time of his death, Miller had been working on the album Circles, which served as a companion album to Swimming. The concept behind the two albums was “Swimming in Circles.”
Miller had been working with producer Jon Brion, who decided to finish Circles based on conversations he had with Miller before his death.
In a post on Miller’s instagram in January, his family said, “This is a complicated process that has no right answer. No clear path. We simply know that it was important to Malcolm for the world to hear it. One of the most difficult decisions in the process is how best to let people know about it– how to communicate meaningfully while keeping sacred what should be kept sacred.” This was the first post on Miller’s instagram since his death.
Post via Mac Miller’s Instagram.
On January 9. his family released a music video for the single “Good News.” The video features archival footage of Miller.
“He (Mac) had this whole aquatic theme that came out of something we’d talked about while working on Swimming,” Brion told The New York Times in an interview. “I’d noticed he mentioned water a few times in the lyrics, and then that grew into all these discussions about water and what it sounds like that became kind of a running joke.”
Brion also revealed that Swimming and Circles were meant to be apart of a trilogy, and explained how they were supposed to roll out. “There were supposed to be three albums: the first, Swimming, was sort of a hybridization of going between hip-hop and song form,” Brion stated. “The second, which he’d already decided would be Circles, would be song-based. And I believe the third one would have been just a pure hip-hop record. I think he wanted to tell people, ‘I still love this, I still do this.'”
Listen to Mac Miller’s Circles here:
Watch Mac Miller’s NPR Tiny Desk segment, which premiered a month before his death.
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