Balloonerism is a full-length album that Mac Miller created around the time of the release of Faces in 2014. It is an album that showcases both the breadth of his musical talents and fearlessness as an artist. Fans of Watching Movies with the Sound Off, Delusional Thomas, Faces and more will immediately understand the album’s creative ambition, agnostic of genre.

Miller has accomplished every goal he ever set for himself. At least that’s what the magazines say about the Pittsburgh kid, and they’re right enough. With his first album he became a grassroots rap megastar. With his second he bared his weird soul and was praised for it. His 11 mixtapes boast a couple bucket lists’ worth of collaborators, from Bun B and Kendrick Lamar to Rick Ross and Juicy J. And in the same year that he toured the U.S. backed by a psychedelic soul band, he rapped all over Europe with Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz. He did indie. He’s doing major. He even bought himself a ridiculous house in the Los Angeles hills and made a TV show about it. Hell, he made a jazz record.