Mac Miller’s posthumous treatment should be the standard, not the exception

Mac Miller’s posthumous treatment should be the standard, not the exception

Mac Miller at splash! festival in 2017. (Nicolas Völcker) Just over a month ago, Mac Miller’s second posthumous album, Balloonerism, was released, setting a new standard for posthumous treatment of music artists. The discussion behind posthumous releases of music has always been controversial, with each side of the argument housing strongly contested opinions. On one side of the aisle, you hear claims of album releases after the artist’s death b…