Miller, Mac - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert EPT87726PCE.1 allowing her otherworldy vocals to

allowing her otherworldy vocals to be harnessed with his swathing guitars to such perfection that they were now out on their own

and the demise of Leonard's band

and the second to last session Byrd would cut for Blue Note

Often nautically themed and

at turns profoundly heartbreaking and sublimely transcendent

Miller, Mac - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert EPT87726PCE.1 allowing her otherworldy vocals toMac Miller's Swimming marked a pivotal point in the late artist's career. His devotion to constant sonic exploration and artistic reinvention had already been well documented prior to the album's release the quantum leap from his Billboard chart topping debut Blue Slide Park to his sophomore album Watching Movies with the Sound Off, his tour de force as a producer on his 2014 mixtape Faces and ability to direct a full band on 2016's The Divine