Posthumous albums often seem to have goosebumps engineered into the mix. Balloonerism – the second Mac Miller record to be released since his death, aged 26, in 2018 – feels spookier than most. It ...

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In 2014 the rapper Mac Miller parted ways with Rostrum Records, the Pittsburgh-based independent label that had shepherded him since he was a teenager. By then, Miller had already become a new kind of ...