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I lurked in studio sessions for 2016sThe Divine Femininein Brooklyn and lower Manhattan.
I picked the artists brain about the overt singer-songwriter aspirations of 2018sSwimming.
Since Millers death in 2018, mid-Januaries feel a touch chillier.
But the light it seems to shine on the pains of the artist can be unnerving.
Balloonerismwas born in the outpouring of creativity that yielded 2013sWatching Movies with the Sound Offand 2014sFaces.
The crass humor of Delusional Thomas and the fixation on death ofFacesmake jarring bedfellows inBalloonerism.
You see why there was no rush to get it out.
Its as open about thoughts of mortality as the staggeringly downcast but defiantly prettyCircles.
But youre left instead with raw beauty and titanic sympathy.
/ Why does death steal life?
Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Bands A Day in the Life.
As lacerating as its lyrical content can get, its exciting to seeBalloonerismcanonized.
Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington regular Taylor Graves is revealed as a valuable piece ofBalloonerisms tight production braintrust.
Theres no depth we cant fight our way of.
