Faces

by Mac Miller

Overview

Faces followed Watching Movies with the Sound Off in just under a year. Considerably deeper and darker than the preceding album, it's classified as a mixtape -- originally a free download, revised and released by Warner digitally and on vinyl -- but certainly has the artistic and emotional impact of a proper LP. Within the sequence are some of Mac Miller's casually boastful and potent rhymes. More often, however, it shows the rapper examining his fragile state, reckoning with mortality, frankly despondent yet still able to construct ingenious cadences with lines like "I'm the only suicidal motherf*cker with a smile on." Miller relates his ascendancy and self-destruction in measured verging on meandering style, occasionally allowing the likes of Thundercat, ID Labs, Earl Sweatshirt, and 9th Wonder to either assist or spell him on production. The beats, energized and bleary only when Miller's self-praise and most addled moments call for it, tend to sound crafted for the sake of alleviating anxiety. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	10/15/2021
Label:	Warner Records
UPC:	0093624881391

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Mac Miller   Primary Artist,Vocals
Sydney Bennett   Vocals
Jimmy Murton   Vocals
Josh Berg   Vocals
Ab-Soul   Vocals
Thundercat   Bass
Earl Sweatshirt   Vocals,Featured Artist
Vince Staples   Vocals,Featured Artist
ScHoolboy Q   Vocals,Featured Artist
Tay Walker   Vocals
Chris Smith   Bass
Rick Ross   Vocals,Featured Artist
Stuart Bogie   Saxophone
Da$h   Vocals,Featured Artist
Stacey Dash   Vocals
Corey Fonville   Drums
Devonne Harris   Fender Rhodes
Sir Michael Rocks   Vocals,Featured Artist
Dylan Reynolds   Vocals
Ali Shaheed Muhammad   Piano
Mike Jones   Vocals,Featured Artist
Columbus Smith III   Organ,Piano,Synthesizer

Technical Credits

Michael Archer   Composer
Rashod Ali Odom   Composer
Joshua Higginbotham   Composer
Dylan Rectenwald   Composer
Joee Billi   Producer,Programming
Shodbeats   Producer
Michael Jones   Composer
Jeremy Kulousek   Composer
Morris "B.B." Dickerson   Composer
Axel Morgan   Composer,Programming
Thomas Sylvester Allen   Composer
Jacques Burvick   Composer
Brent Reynolds   Composer
Mike Bozzi   Mastering
Mikey Rocks   Composer
Jorge Barreiro   Composer
Darien Dash   Composer
Josh Berg   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming
Thundercat   Producer,Programming
Rahki   Producer
Patrick Douthit   Programming
Earl Sweatshirt   Producer
Vince Staples   Composer
DJ Dahi   Producer
William Hart   Composer
Andrew Kim   Composer
Drewbyrd   Producer,Programming
Malcolm McCormick   Composer,Programming
ID Labs   Producer,Programming
Ritz Reynolds   Producer,Programming
Thebe Kgositsile   Composer,Programming
Frank Dukes   Producer,Programming
Harold Brown   Composer
Wilton Felder   Composer
Adam Yauch   Composer
Alain Goraguer   Composer
Thom Bell   Composer
Stephen Bruner   Composer
Leroy Jordan   Composer
Rick Ross   Composer
Raymond Scott   Composer
Adam Horovitz   Composer
Manny Kurtz   Composer
Michael Diamond   Composer
Big Jerm   Producer
Quincy Hanley   Composer
Adam Feeney   Composer
Dacoury Natche   Composer,Programming
Larry Fisherman   Engineer,Producer,Programming
Dylan Reynolds   Producer,Programming
Ryan Baldon   Engineer
Irving Mills   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Karl Jenkins   Composer
Thad Jones   Composer
Charles Miller   Composer
Lee Oskar   Composer
Howard Scott   Composer
Jerry Goldstein   Composer
Rick Rubin   Composer
9th Wonder   Composer,Engineer,Producer
Raphael Saadiq   Composer
Miles Davis   Composer
Eric Dan   Mixing,Composer
Axl Foley   Producer
James Henson   Composer
Columbus Smith III   Composer,Drum Programming