Release and promotion Ĭircles was announced by Miller's family via a note on his Instagram account on January 8, 2020. The track "Everybody" is a cover of American singer-songwriter Arthur Lee's " Everybody's Gotta Live", from his 1972 debut album Vindicator. The track " Blue World" includes production assistance from Guy Lawrence, one half of UK-based house production duo Disclosure.
Pitchfork said the album was difficult to categorize, having so many different aspects. Style and composition Ĭritics have described the album as an hip hop, funk, and emo rap album with elements of soft rock, pop, R&B, lo-fi, indie folk, and synth-pop. Swimming and Circles were planned to be the first two installments in a trilogy of albums, where the last piece would have been "a pure hip-hop record", as described by Brion. Brion, who worked with Miller on the album, completed production "based on his time and conversations" with Miller. It was intended to be a companion album to Swimming, with "two different styles complementing each other, completing a circle" and the concept being "swimming in circles". Recording and production Īt the time of his death, Miller was "well into" the recording process of Circles.
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These first releases were " Time", a collaboration with Free Nationals and Kali Uchis, and " That's Life", an 88-Keys song with vocal features from Miller and Sia. Miller's estate began giving permission for his collaborators to release his remaining music posthumously in June 2019. A later toxicology report from the Los Angeles County Coroners Office determined the cause of death to be "mixed drug toxicity" caused by a combination of alcohol, cocaine, and fentanyl. On September 7, 2018, while preparing to embark on a promotional tour for Swimming, Miller was found dead in his Los Angeles home of a suspected drug overdose. Swimming received positive reviews from music critics, with Mosi Reeves of Rolling Stone saying that Miller "has finally abandoned his frat-rap reputation for good". Inspired by his work on the film score for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Miller hired Jon Brion as a producer for Swimming. Miller intended the album as a cohesive work meant to mark a certain era of his life, a trend that he began on 2016's The Divine Feminine.
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Swimming, the fifth studio album by American hip hop artist Mac Miller, was released on August 3, 2018, by REMember Music and Warner Records.