#Fire Toolz

[needlejuicerecords]

The Scary Jokes' Retinal Bloom is finally here! Produced by genre-defying sound magician Fire-Toolz, Retinal Bloom will take you on a journey through lush dreampop and surreal nightmares. Stream it everywhere you can hear music, and pick up a physical copy today!

[ubykh]

Fire-Toolz - The Pain-Body (Child Synergy Tears)

Demons hungry. They want to feed. Oversoul can see they ache for pain. Love them by starving them. Watch them disappear. Interject agape. Flowy glowy sparkling veins; I feel them shrivel as they mirror. I’m thankful. I’m grateful. I’m hopeful in the snow. “No hope = no fear” but this hope could not be afraid. Be not afraid.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

It Is Happening Again (Thank You, Council Of Saturn!) • Mantra-ing & Golgotha: Double-Bind (Prequel) • Soaked: Another Name For Everything • I Couldn't Have Been BoRn At ThE wRoNg TiMe Because I Was Never Even Born LOL! • Inlet/Paraklesis • A Thin Place • Paraclete Bhishajyati • The Great Allower • Gleam Beam • Everything & Everywhere Is A Divine Mirror • Above All Else I Want To See • Novaturient Wave-Form Collapse

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[notvoid]

this song is making me go crazy

[shepfax]

thank you trans women for inventing and carrying every subgenre of electronic music

[darkarfs]

Doing some cleaning up, I found THIS. Forgot that I bought it. I feel like everyone has a self-help phase in their life where they invest too much time in this shit. (Ask me about the Eckhardt Tolle and Tim Ferriss books I own. Wait, no, don't.) I dunno. I need some positivity in my life because of this foot thing. I'm genuinely worried that this damage to my foot is permanent, and by the time I get a diagnosis it'll be irreversible. Nerve damage? Blood clots? POSSIBLE SURGERY? Resisting pain is exhausting, friends. But I've only ever been hopeful. <3

[bluetapes]

Part 6 of a series interrogating the track titles for Kaijupop, the debut album of my Soft-Bodied Humans project.

The album is available on LP and digital from Gang of Ducks.

Track 6: Bat People

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The Bat People (人間コウモリ Ningen kōmori, lit. Human Bat) are eutherian humanoid kaiju created by Toho that first appeared in the 1969 Toho film, Latitude Zero.

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I was first introduced to the expansive sonic universe of Angel Marcloid via Fire-Toolz’ 2018 classic Skinless X-1.

I was stunned that a small label like Hausu Mountain could apparently find the resources to hire a pro-level producer, as the album SOUNDED like it had been cooked up in a million-dollar recording studio somewhere.

I was also stunned to find that not only all of the production work was done by the artist themselves, but that Angel’s own mixing and mastering services were available at very reasonable cost, an offer I immediately took up when I started my Cut A Lonely Figure and Soft-Bodied Humans music projects.

Angel wove her magic on the kaiju releases and, as I was approaching all of my favourite vocalists regarding contributing to the project, it was completely logical that I would offer her a track to vocal, and I was ecstatic when she agreed.

I explained that the music was constructed out of samples from old kaiju films and that there was ‘very loose’ theme about monsters that could be interpreted as literally or abstractly as you liked, and Angel was like ‘what if the monsters are like my personal demons?!’ and I was like yes 100% make it so.

Angel’s track on Kaijupop, Bat People, adds something searingly emotional to the project that it really needed. Musically, too, it is typically untypical – Angel unloads a shapeshifting, FX-treated, industrial howl of naked feeling over one of the project’s more atmospheric tracks.

Bat People sits perfectly between the abstract, expressive textures of Anna Homler’s Battra and the thudding, menacing shades of extreme metal in Abysmal Growl of Despair’s Minos, in one of the album’s most exciting sequences.

A beautiful, exhilarating exorcism of bad energy.

[passionfruitmango]

I'm glad tumblr has a hype amount of folks who have gushed about Fire-Toolz already, in my day to day life next to NOBODY is aware of her!!! Anyway I adore her sound and have so much of her discog in my liked songs. I have this playlist I put songs I /really/ like and have like four from Drip Mental and two from Interbeing 🥹 anyway yeah if you don't know who fire-toolz is go search on spotify and see if you can find something you like!!!

[needlejuicerecords]

PRE-SAVE ON SPOTIFY!

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Journey through the dreamy and sinister psychedelic universe of Retinal Bloom, the latest album from The Scary Jokes. Liz Lehman confronts threats both external and existential, conjuring a set that simmers with passion and rage. Co-produced with Fire-Toolz (Angel Marcloid), Retinal Bloom is The Scary Jokes’ most aesthetically ambitious album yet, augmenting their trademark bedroom pop approach with distortion, guitar, drums and vintage synths.

Retinal Bloom releases May 26, 2023!

Pre-order NOW on vinyl, CD and cassette!

[hybridreviews]

Decibel Boost Album Roundup (MAK Music Edition): JULY

Yep, time for more albums to talk drop that I didn't already review on the main site.

NOW… we’re at the second half of the year and well, it’s been consistent lately. I found albums that I liked, found meh and one that I just disliked. That one would be right here. Yes, I reviewed that album and no, I don’t care if that’s his best album recently but that’s by comparing some of his worse output in the last few years. I also find it funny that Eminem stans are pissed at Pitchfork…

[cherrwysx-music]

♫ Fire-Toolz - Breeze ♫