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Generally favorable reviews- based on 511 Ratings
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Positive: 424 out of 511
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Mixed: 25 out of 511
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Negative: 62 out of 511
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Jan 17, 2020Beautiful album & a perfect send off for Mac, Jon Brions production meshes with Mac fantastically.
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Jan 17, 2020
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Mar 22, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 17, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 18, 2020A beautiful album. It is very emotional considering Mac's life and head space at the time of recording, but doesn't need to rely on it. It's just really damn good. There isn't a single track on it I don't like, and although it continues the departure from Mac's earlier work, it is a very fitting progression. Beautiful.
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Jan 19, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 19, 2020This album created energy I haven't had from music for a while. The rhythm and the lyrics had me vibing out, some songs brought me to a sadness hearing the sadness in his tone. The different and wide variety of music that Mac brought us was something special. From rapping to that soothing singing voice he has. What an artist. Rest in Peace. Your music will forever live on.
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Jan 19, 2020Beautiful. Thank you so much for finishing this project, Jon Brion, and doing so through Mac’s perspective. Thank you, Malcolm.
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Jan 22, 2020Tjis is an amazing experience especially if you were a long time Mac Miller fan. What a closure for what it has been an amazing carrer!
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Jan 22, 2020Absolutely amazing. Production was spectacular, as well as his vocals. A wonderful send off to the late Mac Miller.
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Jan 25, 2020One of the best albums I’ve ever heard and at the moment is getting me through a rough time 10/10
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Feb 19, 2020
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May 5, 2023words don't describe how good this album is, the greatest album of all time.
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Jan 18, 2020Circles is the most beautiful album by Mac Miller. It's a piece of art. The production is so beautiful and mac should be proud in the heaven.
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Jan 22, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020A little bit plain and boring for my taste. The divine feminine and swimming were better.
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Mar 8, 2020R.I.P. mac but this album still sucks awful it shouldn't b considered hip hop its dumb as f
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Jan 23, 2020I mean it's hard to put into words how bad this album is. I guess people are just being nice because the dude died....but this album is not good at all.
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Jan 22, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 23, 2020His worst album.. lyrics are not good at all..its not mac miller.. production is rough
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Jan 23, 2020Who the **** is working on those reviews?!
Are these guys working from a retirement home or wtf?
Any time some body goes out with a boring record to death, with some existential birdshoot, it gets 80 or more. Just go hang yourself on the nearest tree ffs! -
Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 22, 2020Very bad album method and bust up songs are just finished with this album that is probably not his best
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Jan 17, 2020I do not like it when somebody dies but they continue to release album which even NOT GOOD. You guys have to let fans have good memories of the artist.
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Jan 22, 2020What a horrible situation for mac this is the worst album I've ever heard in my life
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Dec 10, 2020
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Jan 24, 2020Mac Miller's posthumously album Circles is a masterpiece. Listening to Circles makes me feel how we all missed Mac Miller. I the production is a work of art. I Love this album.
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Jan 21, 2020A much inferior album compared to its predecessor, 'Swimming', This album fails to live up to questionably high critical reviews. Parts of this album are very easy listening, and there are some enjoyable tracks. However, it lacks some originality when compared to previous efforts, and the sound of the modern industry.
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Jan 22, 2020Rest in peace to mac but lets agree all the high reviews are because of his death and if he wasnt dead it wouldnt get even 60 to be honest
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Jan 23, 2020Beautiful sounding and it feels like we’re getting closure for mac. This is how posthumous albums need to be done
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Jan 29, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Feb 24, 2021Best posthumous album of all time 10/10
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Mar 29, 2021this album is a 10 this album is a 10 this album is a 10 this album is a 10
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Jan 12, 2021Mac Miller at his most musical yet. No genre in particular, possibly his furthest he's ever been from rap. Beautiful, haunting and a Polaroid of musical genius left for us.
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Feb 21, 2020Though I'm not a fan of the post-mortem releases, this is a true piece of art. It seems that whoever have been responsible for finishing the songs for the album have done an impeccable job. Beautiful, touching, catchy.
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Dec 5, 2020Circles - 7/10
Complicated - 7,5/10
Blue World - 8/10
Good News - 7,5/10
I Can See - 6,4/10
Everybody - 7,5/10
Woods - 6,5/10
Hand Me Downs - 7,5/10
That's on Me - 6,5/10
Hands - 6,5/10
Surf - 7/10
Once a Day - 6/10
Right - 7/10
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Jan 18, 2020What a great way to close a very promising and emotionally filled career of an artist. Expanding the boundaries of rap music, renovating its sounds and innovative to its core. Maybe his best work if combined with his second to last album "Swimming". One of the best rappers of the 2010s who will be missed. I hope he will be survived by many artists who will continue his so fine kind of rap music.
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Jan 22, 2020Beautiful as **** feels like a complete album and it goes really well with swimming. I love the chill vibe and he just is real on it. Not a banger but still really special ❤
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Jan 18, 2020Intmate, sensitive. Well produce and written. Every word, flow and instruments talks to each other with beautiful harmony and the feeling put by Mac in the music by the way he sing just flavors the music it self. A beautiful goodbye for one of the greatest musician of the last decade.
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Jan 30, 2020
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Jan 21, 2020A beautiful album and a beautiful way to say good bye to us fans. The melodies, the lyrics, everything about this body of work is amazing.
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Jan 17, 2020The album sounds good, so smooth, cool. He really did with this album, so good. The vocals and his voice... everything
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Jan 17, 2020forever in our hearts. this album marks a dark period of Mac's eternal absence, but in its melodies a light comfort is transmitted.
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May 30, 2020Best rap álbum of the year and one of the best in general too, deserves a lot more
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Jul 16, 2020
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Mar 22, 2020
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Mar 20, 2020Malcom’s final album, Circles, represents the beginning of something more. Circles is arguably his best album. It’s exciting, yet upsetting, to know Mac had finally found his place in music and had delivered a wonderfully-written masterpiece.
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Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 22, 2020This album is hard to make a review cause is extraordinary in many ways thanks to Mac for this wonderful gift.
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Jan 18, 2020Beautiful. So pure and raw. Wasn't a big fan of Mac but i loved this album! Sad thing we lost him :(. R.I.P Mac
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Jan 22, 2020Es interesante como la muerte de un autor puede cambiar el significado de su obra. Cuando es una obra póstuma ese sentimiento se potencia
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Jan 18, 2020Whole album is full of emotions, thoughts and different feelings... Mac's death really gives this album a strange effect. It's really hard to not weep while you listen those songs. After all, Mac perfectly delivered his message to listener and that's the most important thing in this album, he showed his world, showed what's inside his head and heart.
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Dec 7, 2020actually that album deserves a solid 90 and more. bc it's a masterpiece. like, the best work from him. still cannot believe he's gone. i hope he's feeling good up in the heaven..... i love u
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Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020Beautiful, raw and real, his best work in my opinion. I wish other artists went in deep and got this real on there albums like he did. He will be so missed, he is so loved.
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Feb 16, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020It’s a very nice and calming album and a great ending album for Mac Miller’s discography, it’s very chill, atmospheric, and dreamy. better than Swimming
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May 6, 2020
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Jan 24, 2020
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Feb 2, 2020this album makes me cry and be a little sad, it is a great honor to have this work to remember Mac's life and be honored and recorded by all generations.
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Feb 13, 2020
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Feb 9, 2020It's incredibly refreshing to hear a posthumous album that isn't disingenuous, slimy, clearly made to capitalize on the artist's death and completely devoid of the artist's vision. It's obvious Mac knew what direction he wanted to go in before his passing and what's presented here on Circles is undeniably him. A good send off album for sure.
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Jan 18, 2020When raindrops fell
down from the sky the day you left me
an angel cried... ohhhh she cried an angel CRIEEEEEED
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Jan 17, 2020A beautiful album by a beautiful person. The songs are smooth but meaningful, and they get better and better after every listen. Rest in peace, Mac. Gone but never forgotten.
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Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020this album is a fantastic combination of lyrical content and sweet beats, a final goodbye from mac miller to the world.
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Jan 17, 2020there's no right or wrong with how this turned out but i sure listen the whole album on repeat and its truly a masterpiece..
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Jan 17, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 17, 2020Just perfect.
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Jan 17, 2020It's good, not insanely new and revolutionary, but it's good. This is not completely a rap album, so you shouldn't expect it to be. It's production is really fresh and atmospheric. The use of strings and synths really portray the mood of the album. The lyrics make it beautiful and depressing knowing that he knew himself well enough and expected the worst from his use of substances.
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Jan 17, 2020Tragic genius; an epilogue of a life lived in excess but not without cares or stresses. 11/10
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Jan 17, 2020A very emotional conclusion, not only to Swimming as a concept but to Mac as an artist. The album shows a large growth in his singing ability and explores his voice and abilities vocally. The instrumentals are groovy at points, and calm at others, reinforcing the tone of the album, melancholy with an optimistic outlook.
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Jan 17, 2020it’s amazing, i’m so grateful to get to hear this masterpiece. everybody should listen to it
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Jan 18, 2020This album made me cry a lot, masterpiece. Didn't dislike a single track. R.I.P. Mac
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Jan 18, 2020Beautiful melodies all across the album, very well thought and put together to honor mac miller's life and career.
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Jan 18, 2020Even after death he gives us good music.this album has beautiful instrumentals that isolate mac and put him like he is talking to you from a place where he found peace
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Jan 18, 2020Such an amazing album, swimming was ok but Circles is on another level, this is some of Mac's greatest music ever released.
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Jan 18, 2020
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Jan 20, 2020A well written, produced, and cohesive record. Mac's lyrics paint the saddening and melancholy picture of his mindset during the creation of this record. Brion's production use of synths and string instruments is almost too appropriately paired with Mac's lyricism. Circles is a raw, beautiful, and sonically soothing, yet heartbreaking end to such a young and exceptional artist's career.
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Jan 18, 2020Compelling, captivating and thought-provoking. This album is an inside look into the mind of Mac Miller over a body of work that culminates everything that Mac Miller is in hip-hop. This is a posthumous album done the right way, and a project that Mac Miller himself would be happy to put out. A phenomenal farewell from Malcolm McCormick.
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Jan 18, 2020Easily his best effort, and even better that it was released on my birthday. I love this guy. R.I.P.
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Jan 19, 2020Is a magical album, all the songs is so incredible and the harmonies is so amazing, I love this album so real much
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Jan 19, 2020
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Jan 20, 2020Its impactful and introspective. Each lyric and sound resonates more each time I listen through.
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Jan 22, 2020Beautiful project that captures the talent of Mac as a full and multifaceted artist.
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Jan 22, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 22, 2020Mac Miller delivers a beautiful album and perfect send off to any Mac Miller fan.
Best Tracks: Complicated, Blue World, Hand Me Downs, Hands
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Jan 26, 2020The album offers a very specific mood for a very specific listener. Songs start to blend in with each other- Woods is a stand out for me but besides that this album is not great. RIP
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Jan 22, 2020wonderful album, the choice of beats is fantastic, mac great as always
a pure form of art
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Jan 22, 2020Incredibly melancholy, yet beautifully arranged, every moment is absolutely blissful while staying simultaneously downtrodden
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Jan 22, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 23, 2020This album is great! I loge the production and lyricism and the Singer-Songwriter approach he took on the project. The project has elements of Neo Soul and R&B while still having Mac rap. Definitely Mac’s best album
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Jan 22, 2020Beautiful album, always puts me in a good mood. Best album of the year so far.
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Jan 22, 2020Its like if Mac was talking to us from heaven, good production and the emotion i this project is very deep.
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Apr 29, 2020Circles is a phenomenal send off to one of hip hops most recently tragic stories. The album feels totally complete despite being posthumous, and every instrumental perfectly fits Mac’s moods through each track. The tracks nail the swimming in circles theme and does give some hope in tracks like Blue World.
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Jan 22, 2020The best sendoff I could have ever asked for from one of my favourite artists.
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Jan 22, 2020Sad to see the late mac Miller lave this earth. This album was great and I’m glad it will be his last
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Jan 22, 2020You will be missed Mac! Amazing last album. I cried a lot while listening to it.
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Jan 22, 2020
Awards & Rankings
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Feb 3, 2020Despite the sadness that clearly surrounds this project there is plenty of positivity: the production of the album is impeccable, and the overwhelming message that shines through is of hope for the future.
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Jan 30, 2020Mac’s sixth studio album is a surreal experience that’s filled with opaque contemplation and tragic connotations. ... Loneliness may be our greatest fear other than death. Mac was able to explicitly re-establish this idea through reflective songwriting and gentle crooning. His genius and thoughtfulness will always be remembered. “Circles” is a stark reminder of that.
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Jan 21, 2020He finds beauty and peace in allowing himself to experience his own emotions. It’s an honest, matter-of-fact account of the grey areas of his life and mind. On Circles, Mac shows the unexpected joy that can be found in the darkest of times.