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MAC MILLER Balloonerism 2xLP NEW VINYL.
New: A brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item (including handmade items). 

UK import, sealed and on black vinyl - Mac made Balloonerism around the same time as Faces, between 2013 and 2014. This historic alignment is apparent in the stream-of-consciousness style of writing that Balloonerism wields. Take his verses on Friendly Hallucinations, where lines about novels set in cold war era Romania sit right next to lines idolising the mythical Joan of Arcadia.

What does separates Balloonerism from Faces is its approach to musical structure and form. Both are equally abstract and obtuse, yet Balloonerism reels off with slower, drawn-out ballads that play out like eulogies to the loss of something. The vibrancy of Faces, — its gleeful despondency — is made crudely more melancholic on Balloonerism. An insufferable simplification could be that Faces is the up and Balloonerism, inversely, is the comedown. The music on Balloonerism is heavy-handed on minor chord progressions, touches of jazz flourishes, strummed out guitar picking, and meandering vocal crooning. It’s like Mac’s own twisted reimagining of the music made by Arthur Russell.

A1. Tambourine Dream

A2. The Song That Changed Everything (Feat. SZA)

A3. Do You Have A Destination?

A4. Mrs. Deborah Downer

B1. Stoned

B2. Colors and Shapes (Demo)

B3. Excelsior

B4. Friendly Hallunications (Feat. SZA)

C1. Funny Papers

C2. Manakins (Feat. Dylan Reynolds)

C3. He Finally Sleeps

C4. Transformations (Feat. Delusional Thomas)

D1. Uber (Demo)

D2. Smile (Demo)

D3. Tomorrow Will Never Know

D4. Bob's Dementia (Feat. Hodgy)