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Another Mac Miller posthumous album is on the way following the late rapper’s death in 2018. The news was announced at Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival over the weekend, confirming it to be his unreleased Balloonerism project.

Prior to Tyler’s headlining set, a three-minute animated trailer was screened followed by the word “soon” and the album’s cover art. The clip included new songs ‘5 Dollar Pony Rides’ and ‘The Song That Changed Everything’, the latter of which apparently boasts a guest appearance from SZA.

The cover is a painting of Mac Miller by Alim Smith. Balloonerism was apparently recorded just one week before 2014’s Faces mixtape, and his former manager, Quentin Cuff, mentions the project in The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller.

“Mac and [engineer] Josh [Berg] were cooped up in the bottom studio [at Mac’s house in L.A.],” the excerpt reads. “They were cooking up very zany, otherworldly, weird creations. At the time, they really stood out, and people loved it.”

He continued, “There’s that album, Balloonerism, that was probably made before Faces. A lot of it was supposed to be Faces, and then Balloonerism’s its own thing. There’s so many albums during that time that were in the thought process.”

Mac Miller’s last posthumous album, Circles, was released in 2020 as a companion piece to his 2018 album, Swimming. The Pittsburgh rapper was working on the album before his death and was completed by producer Jon Brion, who is known for his work on Kanye West’s Late Registration. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart with 164,000 units.

The family of Mac assured fans that he wanted everyone to hear the body of work when he was alive, and revealed how happy he was to play the music to people for the first time.

“This is a complicated process that has no right answer,” the post said. “No clear path. We simply know that it was important to Malcolm for the world to hear it … We are left to imagine where Malcolm was going and to appreciate where he was. We hope you take the time to listen. The look on his face when everyone was listening said it all.”