Fire-Toolz earns new attention for Warp debut Lavender Networks

Fire-Toolz received a major 13 May review for Lavender Networks, Angel Marcloid’s Warp debut and one of the strangest experimental releases in the current indie-electronic landscape. The album was released on 8 May, but the fresh review makes it a strong 13 May news item.

Fire-Toolz has always been hard to summarize, and that remains the point. Marcloid’s music smashes together black metal intensity, death metal heaviness, vaporwave gloss, jazz fusion detail, scorched electronics, prog-rock melodrama and moments of real beauty.

Lavender Networks matters because Warp gives this world a bigger platform without sanding down what makes it so gloriously excessive. Rather than becoming more normal, Fire-Toolz sounds more focused: still absurdly dense, still internet-brained, still emotional, but arranged with enough clarity for new listeners to enter the chaos. For indie and experimental audiences, the album is a reminder that boundary-pushing music can still feel generous. It may be noisy, maximalist and strange, but it is not empty provocation. It is an artist turning a thousand obsessions into a language that somehow feels personal. Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fire-toolz-lavender-networks/ ; Official: https://fire-toolz.com ; Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/lavender-networks/1876627207 ; Social: https://www.instagram.com/fire_toolz