Mac Miller: Watching Movies With The Sound Off (2LP) [ROSTRUM]

Why you'll love it

This 2LP set adds three bonus tracks, including "O.K." with Tyler, the Creator. The album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 102,000 copies in its first week, and "S.D.S.," "Watching Movies" and "Goosebumpz" all charted on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

This edition

• 2LP set
• Bonus tracks

About the album

Watching Movies With The Sound Off, Mac Miller's second studio album, came out on June 18, 2013, via Rostrum Records, marking a bold evolution in a sound that began with Macadelic. The title comes from his habit of making music while watching films on mute, and Miller crafted a deeply introspective and personal album, recording more than 400 songs, mostly in his home studio in Los Angeles.

He took control of much of the production under his alias Larry Fisherman, alongside contributions from Diplo, Pharrell Williams, The Alchemist, Flying Lotus and others, and brought in Earl Sweatshirt, Ab-Soul, Action Bronson, Schoolboy Q, Niki Randa and Vinny Radio. Jay Electronica's verse arrived just two hours before the album was mastered, making it the last addition. Songs like "The Star Room" and "Avian" reveal his wit and existential reflections, and critics praised the psychedelic sound and his growth in both lyricism and production.

With this record Miller reinvented himself as a more complex, philosophical voice in hip hop, a long way from the playful rhymes of his earlier work. Nineteen songs made this set out of 400-odd recorded, a hit rate our own buying meetings would be thrilled with.

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Tracklist

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On Rostrum Records (cat# RSTRM738UO), a reissue of the 2013 album.