GO:OD AM [2xLP]

From start to finish, this is Mac Miller’s most refined and well put-together project. He sounds like someones troubled little brother made good: from the albums opening horns, you can sense that this is a victory lap of sorts, a homecoming.

The beats on GO:OD AM have a New York, boom-bap feel, with lots of jazz samples and harder drums, and its both more varied and more upbeat, from the trap-sounding beats of “When in Rome” or the Chief Keef-featuring “Cut the Check” to love songs like “ROS” or the Miguel collaboration “The Weekend”. Miller said he recorded 400 songs for Watching, and sometimes you couldnt help but wonder about the selection process (“Objects in the Mirror”?) but on GO:OD AM, hes learned to self-edit.

Pitchfork