“Why does everybody need me to stay?”
Mac Miller asks on the first single from his latest release. Miller's 12-track album is heartbreakingly sublime, a portrait of a wry and honest musician acknowledging his demons but looking past them. Miller died of an accidental drug overdose in 2018 at 26 and was working on “Circles” as a sort of companion album to his Grammy-nominated “Swimming.” Producer Jon Brion, who worked on “Swimming” and also produced for
Kanye West and Dido, was asked to finish Miller's work.