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Mac Miller’s “Balloonerism” Gets Official Release Date

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During Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival last weekend, Mac Miller fans got a very special treat. The announcement arrived that his long-lost and unreleased album Balloonerism would finally get an official release. Thanks to pre-orders for vinyl, cassette, and CD versions of the LP now available on the late Pittsburgh legend’s official website, we now know that it will drop on January 17, 2025. This is right around the corner and should kick off the year for music in a pretty amazing, cathartic, celebratory, and admittedly bittersweet way. We all miss Mac a lot, but this new release will hopefully be as respectful, caring, loving, and earnest as the other posthumous treatments of his work have been so far.

This comes after a pretty consequential year for Mac Miller’s legacy, as fans everywhere enjoyed the tenth anniversary of Faces. In fact, Balloonerism was reportedly crafted in between that album and the previous 2013 effort, Watching Movies With The Sound Off. Some of its original tracks ended up on Faces, so it will be very interesting to see the artistic overlaps here. As for Watching Movies, that celebrated its tenth anniversary last year, which brought fans new official track releases such as “The Quest.”

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Mac Miller’s Balloonerism Is Almost Here

Over the years, we also witnessed many artists praise Mac Miller not just for this musical legacy, but for his human spirit. “He changed my life, like, my perspective, and made me a better person,” Vince Staples shared back in 2023. “[…] Like, he would sit there and teach me how to make sure I’m on beat, and like rap with certain energy. It took a long time… I was over everyday with nothing else to do for, like, months, and he was teaching me how to rap on beat, how to project. […] [He was] introducing me to people I had no business meeting, because I wasn’t at the skill level yet. I was talking to his mom today.”

You can check out pre-orders for Balloonerism by clicking here. One of Mac Miller’s most legendary unreleased albums is finally seeing the light of day, and amid other new music rumors surrounding him, we hope to keep celebrating his life and career with the same joy he brought to us.

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Mac Miller’s Unreleased Album “Balloonerism” Announced At Camp Flog Gnaw Festival

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Music fans continue to mourn the loss of Mac Miller, but they are more concerned with celebrating his legacy and the great work that he left us with. While he’s no longer around to share that love and passion with fans, it seems like they will get more chances to spread them in his name. Moreover, this is because of a new teaser that played during the first day of Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium (Saturday, November 16). In between Sampha and The Alchemist’s sets at the “Gnaw” stage, a teaser with various colorful visuals of anthropomorphic animals played on the screens, playing the previously leaked “5 Dollar Pony Rides” track from “The Quest” creative.

At the end, a title card simply read “Soon” as a balloon depicting Mac Miller’s face in an abstract, George Condo-esque way rose up. As such, fans are very excited about the possibility that Mac’s long-lost and unreleased album Balloonerism could be officially coming out as a posthumous release. The album was recorded in between Watching Movies With The Sound Off and Faces between 2013 and 2014, with some leaked tracks and associated songs landing on the latter project.

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Mac Miller’s Balloonerism Is Apparently On The Way

In addition, E. Dan of ID Labs posted and then deleted some comments about Mac Miller’s Balloonerism. Basically, he said that the whole thing comes from a week of studio jam sessions and that Mac eventually moved onto Faces, taking a few tracks with him. Over the years, many songs from this era leaked online, and fans are very eager to hear what could arrive. Of course, maybe we’re all just misinterpreting this clip with no release date or official statement to work with, but it seems pretty reasonable. There could also be more unreleased music on the way from the Pittsburgh legend…

However, it’s important to note that some fans will understandably always be skeptical when it comes to posthumous releases. Fortunately, it seems like Mac Miller’s estate, loved ones, and fans assumed that responsibility with the utmost care and respect, so hopefully Balloonerism follows suit. He continues to resonate with massive audiences, and we can’t wait to celebrate his life again.

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