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Based on 5 reviews
2014 Ratings: #448 / 1066
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2014 Ratings: #9All Time: #307
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80
AllMusic

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.

80
HipHopDX

Faces has him in a rare space turning full creative freedom into a lucrative source of revenue.

73
Pitchfork

Faces finds Mac Miller embracing a typical 2010s rapper trope: the exploratory between-album mixtape. Over an hour and a half, he advances on his last LP's heady sprawl with a palette stretching from rainy day introspection to playful wordplay exercises.

70
PopMatters
Mac Miller continues on his path following money, fame, drugs and alcohol, while writing some clever, craftily worded lyrics along the way.
60
The Needle Drop

Mac Miller comes through with an almost 90-minute project with Faces.

Doublez
94

hip hop think tank – episode 7 – Faces' review

Far from the concept of problematic and investigation that this series proposes, I want to speak to you with my heart, with a simple review. Honestly, it's been a long time that I wanted to write something about an artist who counted so much in my life, but I had never really found the words. Mac Miller, a shooting star gone way too soon. It's always more complex to write about something important, since we systematically put this ... read more

Chode
100

“Snowfakes keep fallin’ on my expired debit cards”

Well, just about two years after I first listened to it, I’ve finally accepted it- Faces is a masterpiece; It’s Mac Miller’s most untamed, imaginative, abstract, mystical, existential, mature, and consistently exciting piece of music. Despite the daunting twenty-four tracks this mixtape amounts to, it never stumbles on its path to greatness. Let’s talk about it.

Faces, being as sprawling as it is, is ... read more

daltdisney
98

Spinning this on the turntable again right now. Still the greatest mixtape of all time.

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UnknownEgg
95

24 songs without a single skip is really impressive. One of the best mixtapes ever made.

caioblzz
88

Para uma mixtape desse tamanho, eu fico impressionado que não tenha um momento entediante no projeto inteiro, um trabalho muito bem feito.

100

Love ts🌹

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Track List

1Inside Outside
1:53
91
2Here We Go
2:47
93
3Friends
6:38
88
4Angel Dust
3:42
92
5Malibu
3:31
87
6What Do You Do
3:52
83
7It Just Doesn’t Matter
3:36
86
8Therapy
4:08
93
9Polo Jeans
3:42
91
10Happy Birthday
2:48
92
11Wedding
4:10
89
12Funeral
3:43
94
13Diablo
3:18
95
14Ave Maria
2:55
90
1555
0:52
78
16San Francisco
2:44
84
17Colors and Shapes
5:31
90
18Insomniak
4:06
feat. Rick Ross
90
19Uber
4:31
88
20Rain
2:33
93
21Apparition
3:28
86
22Thumbalina
3:06
86
23New Faces v2
5:27
92
24Grand Finale
3:36
93
Total Length: 1 hour, 26 minutes
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