Mac Miller’s music will live on — and soon.
The late Pittsburgh rapper’s family announced on his verified Instagram page that a new album entitled “Circles” will be released Jan. 17. The family says it is a companion album to “Swimming,” which was released in August 2018.
“Swimming” was released a little more than a month before Miller was found dead in his Los Angeles home of what authorities later identified as an accidental overdose of cocaine, alcohol and fentanyl.
In the Instagram post, Miller’s family says the concept behind the pair of albums was “Swimming in Circles.” As a companion piece to “Swimming,” “Circles” has a different style that complements it, the family wrote.
The family wrote that Miller was working with producer Jon Brion at the time of his death, and Brion dedicated his time to finish the album based on his conversations and time spent with Miller.
“We are eternally grateful to Jon and to those who gave their best to the difficult and emotional task of putting out this body of work,” the family said on Instagram.
Along with the album announcement, the family said it started a new Instagram page — @92tilinfinity (in homage to a long-worked-on Miller mixtape) — for information about the new album, Miller himself and his charity.
The Pittsburgh native, whose real name was Malcolm James Myers McCormick, was 26 when he died on Sept. 7, 2018. He grew up in Pittsburgh’s Point Breeze neighborhood and graduated from Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill.
