Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off

TRACKS:

A1 The Star Room
A2 Avian
A3 I'm Not Real
A4 S.D.S.
A5 Bird Call
B1 Matches
B2 I Am Who Am (Killin' Time)
B3 Objects In The Mirror
B4 Red Dot Music
C1 Gees
C2 Watching Movies
C3 Suplexes Inside Of Complexes And Duplexes
C4 REMember
C5 Someone Like You
D1 Aquarium
D2 Youforia
Bonus Tracks
D3 Goosebumpz
D4 O.K.
D5 Claymation

DESCRIPTION

Repress 2023

After the release of his 2011 debut ‘Blue Slide Park’, Mac Miller started using promethazine to cope with the album’s negative reviews and subsequent stress of his Macadelic tour.

Maybe that’s why his second LP proper, ‘Watching Movies With The Sound Off’, is hazy and somewhat introspective. “You was Easy Mac with the cheesy raps / Who the f*ck is Mac Miller?” a male voice asks midway through the 70-minute recording.

He doesn’t get too personal; instead, Miller spits disoriented rhymes atop an equally disjointed soundtrack. He glorifies his drug habit one moment while atoning for it the next. “Halleluah, thank God I have a future,” Miller raps on ‘The Star Room’; “Praying I don’t waste it getting faded.”

With ‘Movies’, Miller channels his past addiction into an impressive set of stoner rap, far beyond the carefree ‘Blue Slide Park.’ These sounds are heavier and Miller flows naturally in this element. He still likes a good time, but he’s giving us more of himself in the process. Looks like he’s growing up after all.