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  • Summary: Fire-Toolz's first full-length release on the Warp label features guest appearances by Brothertiger, Nailah Hunter, Jennifer Holm, Zola Jesus, Lipsticism, and Sling Beam.
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  1. May 13, 2026
    83
    Lavender Networks, Marcloid’s debut for the lauded experimental label Warp, continues to delight in the vivid frictions—in harsh/clean vocals, in timbres and textures that rarely appear in the same song—that have anchored much of her past work.
  2. May 13, 2026
    80
    It’s messy and weird and colourful and completely unhinged, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not beautiful, in its own singular and undeniably innovative manner.
  3. May 13, 2026
    80
    Lavender Networks almost feels like a successor to Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy because of the way it juxtaposes surreal aggression with a softer, more sensitive side.
  4. Jun 4, 2026
    80
    While her breakthrough Eternal Home spilled out with messy and unwieldy ideas, this record has a welcome focus, at least in its overall shape. The ideas themselves are as varied as they’ve always been.
  5. The Wire
    Jun 16, 2026
    80
    For all its internal violence, its vandalised sounds, structures and conventions, Lavender Networks has a kind of utopian charge - even if that utopia might be personal to Marcloid. [Jul 2026, p.63]
  6. May 13, 2026
    78
    Lavender Networks is a step up on the “approachable” scale—even if it still has enough ideas for a dozen albums by a less adventurous artist. It’s a (relatively) digestible, catchy release that seems destined to invite more people into Marcloid’s digital dayglo world.