#Fire-Toolz

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MAK Music: The Top 25 Albums That He Enjoyed in 2024

THE BEST ALBUMS PICKED BY... well, me in 2024!

Welp, 2024 was a slightly better year … at least during the middle in terms of pop culture. Especially music…. oh, music was an interesting year for hip-hop and yes, I’m referring to the biggest beef of the year between Kendrick Lamar & Drake and how Kendrick ended up being the victor and Drake spiraling out to be the biggest bitch from suing him for defamation (even though he said some libelous…

[notvoid]

this song is making me go crazy

[cherrwysx-music]

♫ Fire-Toolz - Breeze ♫

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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.

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[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!!!

[00ghosts27]

More Spirit Spit Please

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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…

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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

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My top albums/ep's of the year :)

[darkarfs]

Lest we forget this weekend...

[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.

[iowadream]

(gonna gush about this here bc doing it on any of my more public-facing social media accounts is kinda gauche) so my performance yesterday was in conjunction with like 7 other people and one of those people was one of my favorite chicago rappers and they said they loved what i was doing on stage and kinda implied they'd want to do some work with me sometime and i !!!!!!!!!!

new oneohtrix AND new jlin coming out tomorrow, got this family friend's birthday party/art opening tomorrow evening, day after that i'm probably seeing fire-toolz, and then on sunday i'm playing my best friends' debut album release party. i got a big exciting weekend ahead of me :)