Fire-Toolz
Breeze
SPIN GRADE: B (75点相当)
https://www.spin.com/2024/07/fire-toolz-breeze-review/
Breeze follows Angel Marcloid’s five LPs on Chicago label Hausu Mountain since 2017, but she’s been writing, producing, and releasing music since age 8, with records spanning the past two decades under several aliases. On Breeze, she leans into her heavier influences, more discernibly embracing screamo and death-metal (both vocally and musically) alongside electronic experimentation.
Marcloid’s ambition is the most exciting thing about her record, if also her biggest stumbling block along the vast and wonderfully uncanny landscape that Breeze inhabits. Opener “Everything & Everywhere Is Grace; Heaven Is a Decision I Must Make” moves immediately from Marcloid pleading for her life to existing within the mundanities of it: bringing Chewy delivery boxes in from the front yard, loading and unloading the dishwasher, feeding the cats. Her vocals are guttural and grinding, and the dissonance between her subject and delivery lands squarely in the sweet spot between absurdity and profundity. Her attempt at manufacturing mundanity feels natural, creating a palpable bleakness despite its maximalism.
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