Mac Miller - Excelsior

Produced by Pencil TV
Creative Direction by Danae Gosset
Lead Design and Animation: Tal Uliel
Type Animation: Tal Uliel
2D Animation: Tal Uliel, Gabby Sibilska, Alienor Delaporte, Britton Korbel, Phil Evans, Jana Codera, Maria Barrios, Raquel Saez, Rania Hashim, Tiphaine Poli, Dana Roth

Including visuals from the animated film, Balloonerism, directed by Samuel Jerome Mason.

Collage and typography inspired by Bráulio Amado’s album packaging design.

"Excelsior"
Written by Malcolm McCormick
Published by Staircase Works Publishing (BMI)
Produced by Larry Fisherman
Recorded by Josh Berg at The Sanctuary, Los Angeles, CA in 2014
Mixed by E. Dan at ID Labs, Pittsburgh, PA
Mastered by Mike Bozzi at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Los Angeles, CA

[trulyjiji]

his laugh broke my heart. we love you mac, forever young.

[HENJO-sh]

I can’t comprehend how someone can have this amount of talent

[ThePureWizard]

The storytelling is unmatched. I miss Mac. "When did life get so serious." Beat is insane and the kids in the background is so nostalgic it's scary, because it sounds so familiar. As if it was from my own childhood.

[flyerandmorecreativeminds]

Mac was having too much fun at the end. 🪄

[səiznrewarning]

this album is giving me cronic childhood nostalgia. love you mac

[Wowthatsfunny]

every song hits the soul man. forever missing you mac.

[TrynaChief]

Every last one of these songs are beautiful

[jmkfitness]

This is the track that stood out to me, off the whole album.

“When did life get so serious, what ever happened to apple juice and cartwheels”
The end of this track took me somewhere man, like back when I was little kid in my nan and pops house drinking apple juice and playing games and toys from my toy box in my room.


I’m currently going through my life right now with the same feelings. I hadn’t been hit with such a nostalgic saddened/hurt/warm feeling in my chest from a music track like this in a longggg time.

Thanks mac, miss you heaps man.

[FirstToStayLate]

This whole album creates a nostalgic resonation that is very familiar yet completely unknown. Its a feature very few artists can deliver in my opinion. So many of us have our own personal memories with Mac Miller songs as the anthem. I feel like i speak for the masses when i say "we are so grateful for this man and his willingness to give us his life, love, struggles, and his anecdotes, all in his melody".

[gitx]

I heard this track when it leaked like 4 years ago. Its easily one of my favorite mac tracks of all time. It paints this picture of nostalgic tranquility while having a sense of uneasiness to it. Hard to imagine what mindstate you have to be in to create a piece like this. Truly a one of a kind artist. My goat

[AdvyDeven]

This is the one. When did life get so serious? I remember playing in the yard with friends & imaginary friends alike. I wanted to be a hero. To discover new things the world didn't know about. To be able to protect anyone from the bullies. And to go back inside afterwards with some juice and video games.
Man I miss those days.

[GabrielLopez-jv]

the laugh broke my heart and made me cry hard, we love you Malcolm happy 33 birthday 😿💞

[saintcella]

Reminds me of Blue Slide Park, especially with the kids talking in the background with the beat. RIP Mac 🕊

[DIOFFICIAL]

This is album is so fuckin' trippy man, it's something else, coming-of-age, existential questions, and more, on jazzy super chill beats, this will certainly go down as my fourth ever fav.

[Nishan.J]

nothing but grateful for being able to listen to this beautiful project.

[mikeyrobinson]

The sound design work in this album is nuts

[BringOnTheFandomm]

who's here before the rest of my day one Mac Miller fans see's this?!
Also, Shoutout to Mac's label for respecting the man legacy!
LONG LIVE MAC MILLER🕊

[jahlel.]

when he says excelsior! in the end that's all the inspiration i need.

[TheyCallMeNetarous]

The beat and vibe switch with the kids in the background was insane. Brought back a vibe I haven’t felt in a long time.

I’ve heard testimonies of life after death experiences from people who were depressed the majority of their life, who were randomly brought to a beautiful horizon, birds chirping, nature, field full of flowers, almost described as Eden from the bible. Those people that experienced that said that they felt so euphoric that they didn’t want to go back. For some reason, this song reminded me of that

[DanielleWilliams-jfgu]

Man this album hit different. I’ll be crying to this song aalll winter