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.
Faces has him in a rare space turning full creative freedom into a lucrative source of revenue.
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
“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
24 songs without a single skip is really impressive. One of the best mixtapes ever made.
Para uma mixtape desse tamanho, eu fico impressionado que não tenha um momento entediante no projeto inteiro, um trabalho muito bem feito.
| 1 | Inside Outside 1:53 | 91 |
| 2 | Here We Go 2:47 | 93 |
| 3 | Friends 6:38 feat. ScHoolboy Q | 88 |
| 4 | Angel Dust 3:42 | 92 |
| 5 | Malibu 3:31 | 87 |
| 6 | What Do You Do 3:52 feat. Sir Michael Rocks | 83 |
| 7 | It Just Doesn’t Matter 3:36 | 86 |
| 8 | Therapy 4:08 | 93 |
| 9 | Polo Jeans 3:42 feat. Earl Sweatshirt | 91 |
| 10 | Happy Birthday 2:48 | 92 |
| 11 | Wedding 4:10 | 89 |
| 12 | Funeral 3:43 | 94 |
| 13 | Diablo 3:18 | 95 |
| 14 | Ave Maria 2:55 | 90 |
| 15 | 55 0:52 | 78 |
| 16 | San Francisco 2:44 | 84 |
| 17 | Colors and Shapes 5:31 | 90 |
| 18 | Insomniak 4:06 feat. Rick Ross | 90 |
| 19 | Uber 4:31 feat. Mike Jones | 88 |
| 20 | Rain 2:33 feat. Vince Staples | 93 |
| 21 | Apparition 3:28 | 86 |
| 22 | Thumbalina 3:06 | 86 |
| 23 | New Faces v2 5:27 feat. Earl Sweatshirt, Da$H | 92 |
| 24 | Grand Finale 3:36 | 93 |