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Ashtray Navigations: To Make A Fool Ask & You Are The First - VINYL LPTitle: To Make A Fool Ask & You Are The First Artist: Ashtray Navigations Label: Blackest Ever Black Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 5055869543859 Genre: Electronic Release Date: 2016 12 09 Number of Discs: 1 Ashtray Navigations's To Make A Fool picks up where the nerve damaged exotica of 2015's A Shimmering Replica left off acerbic "surf" guitar and synthetic salt breeze fit for the Tropic of Yorkshire. Instant immersion in a potent, pungent psychedelia

Title: To Make A Fool Ask & You Are The First
Artist: Ashtray Navigations
Label: Blackest Ever Black
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5055869543859
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2016-12-09
Number of Discs: 1

Ashtray Navigations's To Make A Fool picks up where the nerve-damaged exotica of 2015's A Shimmering Replica left off - acerbic "surf" guitar and synthetic salt-breeze fit for the Tropic of Yorkshire. Instant immersion in a potent, pungent psychedelia that feels equal parts cosmic and aquatic. What Phil Todd wrenches out of his instrument these days is a language unto itself - a helical, grieving howl, a (super)natural efflorescence, beyond earthly description - ur-rock and post-everything. Equal emphasis is given here to pulsating machine rhythms and lush keyboard textures, with contributions by Mel O'Dubhshlaine. There were pre-echoes of all this in the recent Fluctuants (2015) and Aero Infinite (2014), but To Make A Fool feels like the fullest expression of something which was only glimpsed in those earlier works. The side-long "Spray Two" - gently eddying string-pads gradually slashed with fraught piano improvisations - is a masterpiece in it's own right. At it's delirious peak, the whole thing boils over into brooding, arpeggiated noir-techno - Michael Mann's steadicam roaming Leeds's B-roads, some kind of tangerine nightmare - before finally cooling into a bleary starfield of pure and sumptuous hypno-tone. This is a trip, in the most skull-splitting, soul-crinkling sense of the word, but it soothes and heals as well. A circular and transformative journey to the other side of the underneath, and a landmark recording from one of the most adept and visionary nodes in Britain's freak-out underground.

Tracks:
1.1 (Another) Hour of the Grubber
1.2 A Crimson Coin
1.3 Bellow Organs Spine
1.4 Spray Two
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