Fire-Toolz: Breeze (self-released, 2024)
August 20, 2024 at 8:47 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Fire-Toolz: Breeze
The
new Fire-Toolz album comes after Angel Marcloid’s move to a nice house by a lake an hour West of Chicago, and it feels like an interpretation of what happens when a weirdo from a busy city moves into a safe suburban neighborhood. You can almost imagine the visuals of someone in a full corpsepaint black metal outfit mowing the lawn and planting flowers in the yard, greeting the old lady who lives next door. There is something of a domestic, controlled atmosphere to these songs, yet there’s also a heavier presence of death metal growling and crunchy guitar shredding. “Window 2 Window 2 Window 2 Window 2 Window 2 Window” starts out sounding almost like Jesu with extra IDM glitches, then Cole Pulice’s sax smooths it out. Breaking from the metal-inspired intensity of most of the tracks, “Sibling Sun, Sibling Moon, White Concrete Steeped In Celestial Light” flows between dark ambient, new age, and eventually cosmic Americana. “A Considerate Amount of Pining” throws noise-bombs and rattling breakcore drums onto the ground, and drifts away from rhythm, ending up one of the album’s more sprawling, body-escaping tracks. “The Pain-Body (Child Synergy Tears)” also has a bit of a Jesu vibe at first, before it escalates into an emo anthem. There’s just an amazing duality throughout this album, it’s chaotic and destructive and outwardly expressive but still controlled and balanced in its own way.
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