

Composition Ĭritics have described the album as an hip hop, funk, and emo rap album with elements of soft rock, pop, R&B, lo-fi, indie folk, and synth-pop. It was released by Warner Records on January 17, 2020.


Ĭircles was announced by Miller's family via a note on his Instagram account on January 8, 2020. Swimming and Circles were planned to be the first two installments in a trilogy of albums, where the last piece would have been "a pure hip-hop record", as described by Brion. Jon Brion, who worked with Miller on the album, completed production "based on his time and conversations" with Miller. It was intended to be a companion album to Swimming (2018), with "two different styles complementing each other, completing a circle" and the concept being "swimming in circles". At the time of his death on September 7, 2018, Miller was "well into" the recording process of Circles.
