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McCartney III Imagined

McCartney III Imagined is a remix album of songs from McCartney III, the eighteenth solo album by English musician Paul McCartney. It was released digitally on 16 April 2021, with a physical version released on 23 July. It features remixes by numerous artists.


McCartney III Imagined
16 April 2021 (2021-04-16)
Various
Various
47:23 (digital)
50:07 (physical)
Capitol/Universal
Various
McCartney III(2020)

McCartney III Imagined(2021)

McCartney I II III(2022) | McCartney III(2020) | McCartney III Imagined(2021) | McCartney I II III(2022) | | McCartney III(2020) | McCartney III Imagined(2021) | McCartney I II III(2022) | | | | | | | | "The Kiss of Venus (Dominic Fike version)"Released: 11 March 2021 "Find My Way (featuring Beck)"Released: 25 March 2021 "Slidin' (EOB remix)"Released: 7 April 2021 | | | | | | | | |

McCartney III Imagined is a remix album of songs from McCartney III, the eighteenth solo album by English musician Paul McCartney. It was released digitally on 16 April 2021, with a physical version released on 23 July. It features remixes by numerous artists.

The tracks were curated by McCartney, featuring "friends, fans, and brand new acquaintances". Dominic Fike's version of "The Kiss of Venus" was released as the first single, followed by Beck's version of "Find My Way" and EOB's version of "Slidin'".

Coinciding with its release, McCartney had live conversations via Instagram Live with several contributors. The album received positive reviews. Following McCartney III accomplishing the same feat, it became the first remix album to top Billboard's Top Album Sales Chart in more than a decade, also reaching number 1 on the US Rock Albums and Vinyl Albums charts.

For McCartney III Imagined, McCartney enlisted numerous collaborators to remix and perform songs from the album, including: Beck, Dominic Fike, Khruangbin, St. Vincent, Dev Hynes, Phoebe Bridgers, Ed O'Brien, Damon Albarn, Josh Homme, Anderson .Paak, Robert Del Naja, and Idris Elba.

Aggregate scores
AnyDecentMusic?7.0/10
Metacritic76/100
AllMusic
Clash8/10
Exclaim!8/10
The Independent
Loud and Quiet6/10
musicOMH
NME
The Observer
Paste8.0/10
Pitchfork6.6/10
Uncut7/10

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, McCartney III Imagined has an average score of 76, based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album 7 out of 10, based on its assessment of the critical consensus.

All tracks are written by Paul McCartney.

Chart (2021)Peakposition
104
28
3
46
13
19
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