All it needs is for the low end to be a little better.’ Almost every time I'd make a suggestion like that, he'd go, 'Oh, I'm so glad you said that. He'd play things, and I might just go, ‘That's great. He'd play me things in various states, and the whole batch, meaning both albums’ worth of songs. “I think that vocal was done, if I recall correctly. I was just a hundred percent in from the get-go.” Things you'll hear in the lyrics directly-‘I’m this way, and I think other people might not understand how I think, but actually I'm okay with that.’ It's so pointed.
‘Circles’ and a few other songs on this record: You hear him acknowledging aspects of himself, either that he doesn't feel capable of changing or things he thinks are questionable. Throughout all of his lyrics, his self-reflection is much more interesting than some other people’s. I added a brush on a cymbal, and a vibraphone. Here, Brion takes us inside the making of some of Circles’ key songs and offers insights on what it was like to work so closely with Miller on something so personal. With the support of Miller’s family, Brion completed Circles based on conversations the two had shared before Miller’s death in September 2018, adding elements of live percussion, strings, and various overdubs.
It feels more akin to Harry Nilsson than hip-hop, and the breadth of Brion’s CV (Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Janelle Monáe) made him the perfect collaborator. After a couple of those, he goes, ‘I’ve got these other things I'm not sure what to do with.’” Those “other things” were the beginning of Circles, a now posthumous LP that Miller had envisioned as a counterpart to Swimming-one that finds him exploring levels of musicality, melody, and vulnerability he’d only hinted at before. “There was more hip-hop-leaning stuff, and it was great and funny and personal-the tracks were already pointing someplace interesting. “He comes in and he plays five or six things,” Brion tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. The first time that Mac Miller and Jon Brion formally met, Miller was already hard at work on what would become 2018’s Swimming, an album that Brion would sign on to produce.
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