{"id":629397,"date":"2024-07-31T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fire-toolz-has-a-universe-in-her-kitchen-sink\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T18:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:59:25","slug":"fire-toolz-has-a-universe-in-her-kitchen-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fire-toolz-has-a-universe-in-her-kitchen-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n #content_block-262862 {\n   background: #000000;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-262862 {\n   background: #000000;\n   margin-bottom: 60px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262862\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      The Chicago artist discusses musical meta-narratives, past and present pets, and how her chaotic new album <i>Breeze<\/i> relates to her peaceful new life in the \u2019burbs.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image01_t2c8bz\/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-instagram-com-bputerbaughphoto-hl-en-bethany-puterbaugh-a.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Angel Marcloid (Fire-Toolz). Photo by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bputerbaughphoto\/?hl=en\">Bethany Puterbaugh<\/a>.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom_share_buttons_top \" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"new_socials_bottom\" class=\"new_socials_footer  \">\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Facebook-747312c39722d47504a80f02500b8d4ad2e36acf922bad1c83799db1bc77f605.png\"><br \/>\n      <!-- <span>Share<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefader.com%2F2024%2F07%2F31%2Ffire-toolz-breeze-interview%3Futm_source%3Df%26utm_medium%3Dtw%26utm_campaign%3Dshare&amp;text=Fire-Toolz%20has%20a%20universe%20in%20her%20kitchen%20sink&amp;via=thefader\" class=\"new_social_footer_button twitter new_social_share_button\" data-ga-event-category=\"Social Share\" data-ga-event-label=\"Twitter\" data-ga-on=\"click\" data-ga-event-action=\"cilck\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Twitter-8d78f695280aa3f8a4461702c68e9fcbfd6042af1600c62d49fdec4b735fb57a.png\"><br \/>\n    <!-- <span>Tweet<\/span> --><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\"><br \/>\n        <!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262863 {\n   background: #d90011;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-262863,  #content_block-262863 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-262863 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262863\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"lead-text\">Angel Marcloid<\/span> 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, <i>Breeze<\/i>, her neon-red hair matches her neon-red desk chair; her rainbow chain necklace matches the seemingly countless rainbow objects decorating the room alongside flashing technicolor lights; and the feline furniture flanking the wall to her right alludes to the inspiration for her multiple visible cat tattoos.<\/p>\n<p>            <i>Breeze<\/i>\u2019s album art mirrors Marcloid\u2019s personal aesthetic as well, filled with images her fans are already familiar with from previous record covers \u2014 the rainbow and the cute critters, of course \u2014 in this case, bunnies, not cats \u2014 but also the fire hydrant, the red soccer ball, and, in black-metal font, two hyphenated words: Fire-Toolz.<\/p>\n<p>            Marcloid has been releasing some of the most chaotic, genre-clashing collages of our time as Fire-Toolz for nearly a decade now, dropping at least one full-length LP every year since 2017 \u2014 not to mention singles, splits, EPs, and remix records. Her songs are stylistic supernovas, where ambient explodes into prog metal, gentle acoustic guitars vanish into noisegrind synths, and Auto-Tuned crooning is steamrolled by screamo vocals seemingly engineered to turn the sweetest reverie into a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>            For Marcloid, though, these jarring pivots are simply the way her process logically unfolds. \u201cIt\u2019s normal to me,\u201d she says, in one way or another, several times during our interview. Her music, her artwork, her track and album titles \u2014 even the bios and press releases <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly written for her by others \u2014 are all reflections of her earthly experience, and life doesn\u2019t always move in a straight line. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262864 {\n   background: #d90011;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-262864,  #content_block-262864 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-262864 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: ;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262864\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3698811701\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fire-toolz.bandcamp.com\/album\/breeze\">Breeze by Fire-Toolz<\/a><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262932\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262865 {\n   background: #d90011;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-262865,  #content_block-262865 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-262865 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262865\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            A starving artist in Chicago for most of her career, Marcloid moved to the suburbs a few years ago. More recently, she moved into a much bigger, nicer home with her wife, a therapist, and their five pets (four cats, one dog). Her material circumstances and feelings of safety might be somewhat reflected in <i>Breeze<\/i>\u2019s lyrics, she concedes, but the album\u2019s sound is about as off the rails as any of her other projects. There are passages here that the untrained but open-minded listener would find beautiful, to be sure, but they\u2019re matched by pulverizing blasts of sound, death rattles echoing up from a bottomless chasm. And Marcloid sees all parts of her sound as reflective of her newfound inner peace. <\/p>\n<p>            Every moment on <i>Breeze<\/i> is, in one way or another, ecstatic, Marcloid insists, and I\u2019m inclined to agree. But it\u2019s hard to listen to <i>Breeze<\/i> and maintain a sense of calm. T<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing into the tranquility Marcloid feels when she hears these songs requires a leap of faith, a headfirst dive into her kitchen-sink universe.<br \/><b><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262921 {\n   background: #f7771d;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262921\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire-Toolz - To every squirrel who has ever been hit by a car... 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What\u2019s your state of mind at that early stage versus when you get down to editing?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Any disciplined producer would say not to mix and match those tasks. But when I\u2019m working on my own music, I\u2019m composing and trying different things and mixing and even doing like half the mastering all at the same time; that\u2019s how the worlds come together. When people make these incredible songs but nothing is mixed, I can\u2019t deal with that. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever finished a song unmixed. People will tell you to commit and move on or else you\u2019ll never get it done, but that sounds horrible. Why would I ever want to commit to anything?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262867 {\n   background: #f5ff0a;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262867\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire-Toolz - The Envy Of The Heavenly Powers (official...&quot;music video&quot; i guess)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXzT8rY0XYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('262867');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262868 {\n   background: #f5ff0a;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-262868,  #content_block-262868 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-262868 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: ;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262868\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>There are so many musical meta references planted across your records. Do you see these as Easter eggs for hardcore fans, or is there a deeper connection between them?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            They\u2019re not really for anybody else, but it\u2019s cool when someone picks up on them because it means they\u2019re interested in what I\u2019m doing beyond the gratification of listening to it just once in a while for the thrill. <\/p>\n<p>            It comes from growing up on prog metal. One thing I love about some of the older Dream Theater albums is the repetition of melodies across songs. I like doing that across albums, too, because I\u2019m always building the Fire-Toolz universe. So if I make a song in 2024 that uses the same melody or sample or idea as something I did in 2016, that\u2019s completely normal to me. In a movie, stuff happens in the last scene that has to do with the second scene. Fire-Toolz is a documentation of my journey as a being, so why wouldn\u2019t there be tons of references and connections that stretch out over time?<\/p>\n<p>            <b>There are lots of recurring themes in your album artwork, too. Tell me about your obsession with rainbows, for instance.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Rainbows are the most grandiose, saccharine, unapologetic display of happiness you can think of; they\u2019re so universal. A lot of the objects in my album art do have more specific meanings, but rainbows have always been just a decoration, a vibe I want to put out there \u2014 that feeling I get when I see one, whether it\u2019s illustrated or real.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Cats are another image you come back to over and over.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I\u2019ve had cats my entire life. It was never a lot of cats \u2014 only one at a time, maybe two \u2014 but I don\u2019t really know anything else. My first encounter with the reality of death when I was only a couple years old was when our first family cat passed. We did a burial ritual and everything. I still miss him. <\/p>\n<p>            Liking cats more than people is a clich\u00e9, but there\u2019s some truth to it, not because I don\u2019t like people but because cats <i>are<\/i> my people. I\u2019ve never been lonely when I\u2019ve had pets. I have four cats and a dog, and they\u2019re my best friends. Some of them have special needs, so I\u2019m constantly tending to them, and I love every minute of it. I used to think music was my life, but at some point I thought to myself, \u201cmusic or cats?\u201d And I realized I would never listen to another song for the rest of my life as long as I could be with cats.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262871 {\n   background: #4dff00;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262871\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire-Toolz - Window 2 Window 2 Window 2 Window 2 Window 2 Window feat. 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[Moving] has also changed my ability to feel peaceful and feel safe; despite Chicago having an extremely high queer population, we\u2019re not safe at all there. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been harassed in the gayest parts of Chicago, but being out here \u2014 even though this area is more conservative than the city \u2014 feels so much safer for me when I\u2019m walking the streets, doing chores. There are some Trump flags in the neighborhood, which should make me feel nervous walking in front of those houses. The people here might have a problem with me, but they\u2019re not gonna do shit about it. In Chicago, you just get shit thrown at you. You get yelled at. You get fucking followed.<\/p>\n<p>When I first moved out of the city, I lived in the most affordable house I could find, and even that was a massive change in the way I felt physically and neurologically from day to day. But if you listen to my music, you\u2019re not necessarily gonna hear that. You might read more positivity and ease in the lyrics, but other than that, the sound is always crazy, whether I\u2019m here or in chaos.<\/p>\n<p><b>Part of what makes your music so fun is the lightning-fast pivots between these modes. Are these shifts happening in real time, within your process of writing, editing, and mixing all at once?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a continuum to me. A lot of people\u2019s gripes with art are about lack of cohesiveness and the sense that something doesn\u2019t fit in. This might sound oxymoronic, but I don\u2019t see how something standing out makes it not fit in. <\/p>\n<p>People say, \u201cThe song doesn\u2019t flow,\u201d or, \u201cIt sounds like they just sewed four parts together that don\u2019t have anything to do with each other.\u201d It\u2019s like, \u201cWell, they have something to do with each other now!\u201d They\u2019re in the same song and they\u2019re making a statement, and not all statements have to be beautiful, conventionally flowing lines. If I open a song with a one-and-a-half-minute ambient passage and then go straight into noisegrind, it\u2019s normal to me. That\u2019s how things happen in the world sometimes.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262918 {\n   background: #00a1eb;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262918\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire-Toolz - Sibling Sun, Sibling Moon, White Concrete Steeped In Celestial Light (visualizer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ugkpucsMjE0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('262918');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><b>You\u2019ve talked about how you see death metal as an expression of your new state of tranquility. I\u2019ve heard of ecstatic black metal, but never calm death metal. Could you expand on that?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I got interested in death metal when I was 10. I discovered it through late-night MTV, and I remember thinking, \u201cl wanna start a happy death metal band. I wanna sound like this, but I don\u2019t want senseless violence.\u201d Now that I\u2019m older, I know that most of the time it wasn\u2019t senseless; it was political, and the satanic imagery was often in protest of religious fundamentalism. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying I was a happy kid \u2014 I wasn\u2019t \u2014 but I was still very attracted to bringing bright colors and happy vibes to extreme, heavy music. I can see why it would feel like a mismatch to some people, but to me, it\u2019s all ecstatic. The heavier something is, the more likely I\u2019ll cry listening to it. It\u2019s so impactful my body doesn\u2019t even know what to do. That\u2019s why I listen to extremely brutal deathcore so often these days. It\u2019s the same to me as listening to the most beautiful melodic music you can think of \u2014 equally as potent, equally as emotional.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262876 {\n   background: #4B0082;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262876\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire-Toolz - Asparagus Pee, SETI, &amp; The Gift Of Tears (official music video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJKawhrDOxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('262876');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262934\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262923 {\n   background: #4B0082;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-262923,  #content_block-262923 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-262923 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262923\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            My wife feels the same way. We were driving to get breakfast one day, listening to this band Love Lost But Not Forgotten \u2014 shrieky, sloppy, noisy, metallic screamo from the early 2000s. We were in the middle of the country, and there was this pond with all these geese. I was like, \u201cThis is a little weird,\u201d and she said, \u201cNo, it\u2019s perfect. This is how I feel when I see the geese.\u201d I knew in that moment that I\u2019d married the right person, because that\u2019s exactly how I feel. When I see geese swimming in a pond, the heaviest parts of my album seem fitting, but so do the softest parts. They\u2019re just two different ways of expressing that ecstasy.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262920 {\n   background: #8F00FF;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262920\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Removed From Everything &amp; Everywhere Is Grace (feat. COCOJOEY)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZRKnb7BhVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('262920');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-262885 {\n   background: #8F00FF;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-262885,  #content_block-262885 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-262885 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262885\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>I love the way this album ends: a recording of your cats and dog, a coffee maker, a running faucet. It\u2019s got a real sense of an ending. I\u2019m wondering if you seek that out in your music, and if endings are easy or hard for you.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I have a problem with ending things. But I started recording my coffee maker and was like, \u201cI wanna make a scene out of this,\u201d so I put my friend Martin\u2019s three dogs \u2014 one of which had passed away \u2014 together in my kitchen (I got doggy noises from videos he sent me). I wanted my friend Joey to be playing the piano for us while we waited for our coffee, so he re-recorded a track he\u2019d sent me earlier on, and then I was like, \u201cBring your cat,\u201d so he sent me a couple clips of his cat Coco meowing. Then another friend sent me a video of his dog Hineni playing with some other dogs, and I put that in there, too. Realistically, there are probably nine dogs at the end of the album, even though it doesn\u2019t sound like it. It\u2019s this scene where I\u2019m making coffee, Joey\u2019s playing piano for me and Martin, and our pets are in the kitchen \u2014 something that might never happen but feels really good to imagine.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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