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.
Mac Miller comes through with an almost 90-minute project with Faces.
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
What Mac Miller gives us with this mixtape is not just one of the best rap projects of all time, not just his second best project, not just the best album/mixtape of 2014, but the best mixtape of all time.
Every single track one this very long mixtape is just perfect. I genuinely think that every single track on this is a masterpeice even the 52 second long instrumental titled "55". I even love the bonus track: "Yeah" which kinda surprised me considering i don't really care ... read more
“Snowfales 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
The greatest Mixtape ever in my books. Crazy that Mac made a 90 minute project that is so entertaining and filled with one amazing song after the other. Miss him so much. This is really one of my personal favorite music experiences of all time.
1 | Inside Outside 1:53 | 90 |
2 | Here We Go 2:47 | 91 |
3 | Friends 6:38 feat. ScHoolboy Q | 88 |
4 | Angel Dust 3:42 | 91 |
5 | Malibu 3:31 | 87 |
6 | What Do You Do 3:52 feat. Sir Michael Rocks | 84 |
7 | It Just Doesn’t Matter 3:36 | 87 |
8 | Therapy 4:08 | 92 |
9 | Polo Jeans 3:31 feat. Earl Sweatshirt | 90 |
10 | Happy Birthday 2:48 | 92 |
11 | Wedding 3:49 | 89 |
12 | Funeral 3:43 | 92 |
13 | Diablo 3:18 | 94 |
14 | Ave Maria 2:55 | 89 |
15 | 55 0:52 | 79 |
16 | San Francisco 2:44 | 85 |
17 | Colors and Shapes 5:31 | 90 |
18 | Insomniak 3:59 feat. Rick Ross | 90 |
19 | Uber 4:31 feat. Mike Jones | 90 |
20 | Rain 2:33 feat. Vince Staples | 94 |
21 | Apparition 3:28 | 87 |
22 | Thumbalina 3:06 | 89 |
23 | New Faces v2 5:27 feat. Earl Sweatshirt, Da$h | 93 |
24 | Grand Finale 3:31 | 92 |