Qualifications: The singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and studio maverick who, as Fire-Toolz, makes thrillingly unclassifiable, avant-garde music ...

Montreal’s No Joy have announced Bugland, their first album in five years, which will be out August 8 via Hand Drawn Dracula in North America and Sonic Cathedral in the UK. The album was co-produced ...

Angel Marcloid has a new Fire-Toolz album on the way. The follow-up to last year’s i am upset because i see something that is not there is called Breeze, and it’s dropping right after all those ...

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist producer Angel Marcloid — who records under the moniker Fire-Toolz — knows a thing or two about fusion. Drawing upon heavy tech influences, sensual sax, and even a ...

Angel Marcloid has built a studio in her own image. When she joins our video call from her home in the Chicago suburbs, days after the release of her 10th-odd album, Breeze, her neon-red hair matches ...

Named after a Go-Go's song, Los Angeles trio Automatic surfaced in 2019 with the sangfroid, steely nerved album Signal, a rewarding deviation from the underground-hip-hop powerhouse label Stones Throw ...

Angel Marcloid makes music under many names, but she calls Fire-Toolz "the top of the pyramid." Credit: Manda Boling My family’s beloved 16-year-old Siamese cat, Webley, died in my arms last year.

Black-metal screams and glitched vampiric beats rise to the surface on this effervescent two-minute banger. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fire-Toolz makes much more sense when you accept ...

Fire-Toolz's hyper-digitalia sounds like a row of belching slot machines expectorating into a pachinko machine in Hades. The glowstick noise that Angel Marcloid makes as Fire-Toolz is an oblong step ...

For Deleuze and Guattari, Kafka’s The Castle is a book with multiple ways through, the meaning changing depending on which entrance the reader chooses. Fire-Toolz’s fourth album on Hausu Mountain, ...

Welcome to Band Jury, a SPIN series in which artists defend black sheep albums they feel deserve another listen. These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a ...