After a posthumous album from Mac Miller was teased throughout Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw competition in Los Angeles this previous weekend, the rapper’s household has formally introduced it. Balloonerism is ready for launch on January 17 by way of Warner, the Friday earlier than what would’ve been Miller’s thirty third birthday.
In an announcement, Miller’s household stated:
A lot of Malcolm’s followers are conscious of Balloonerism, a full-length album that Malcolm created across the time of the discharge of Faces in 2014. It’s a undertaking that was of nice significance to Malcolm—to the extent that he commissioned paintings for it and discussions regarding when it ought to be launched have been had usually, although finally GO:OD AM and subsequent albums ended up taking priority.
We imagine the undertaking showcases each the breadth of his musical skills and fearlessness as an artist. Provided that unofficial variations of the album have circulated on-line for years and that releasing Balloonerism was one thing that Malcolm ceaselessly expressed being essential to him, we felt it most acceptable to current an official model of the undertaking to the world. With that in thoughts, we’re glad to announce that Balloonerism might be launched on January seventeenth, 2025.
Mac Miller died from an unintended overdose in 2018. Two years later, his property launched Circles, which was meant to be a companion to his 2018 document Swimming.