For the second time in the seven years since his death, Mac Miller fans have the chance to listen to a new album. The US rapper was 26 when he died from an accidental overdose in 2018. Friends say he was lost in his prime and fans' hunger for new music has remained.

Miller’s debut studio album, Blue Slide Park, topped the Billboard 200 upon its release in back in 2011, the first independently distributed debut album to do so since 1995. Over the course of five studio albums, Miller evolved into one of the most eclectic artists of the 2010s, delving into alt-rap, soul and R&B with equal fervor.

Written and recorded primarily in 2014, Balloonerism marks the musician’s second posthumous LP and is set to arrive this Friday, January, 17: two days ahead of Mac’s 33rd birthday and exactly five years since the release of his first posthumous album, Circles.