{"product_id":"ashtray-navigations-to-make-a-fool-ask-you-are-the-first","title":"Ashtray Navigations: To Make A Fool Ask \u0026 You Are The First - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTo Make A Fool Ask \u0026amp; You Are The First\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eAshtray Navigations\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eBlackest Ever Black\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e5055869543859\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eElectronic\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2016-12-09\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 (Another) Hour of the Grubber \u003cbr\u003e1.2 A Crimson Coin \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Bellow Organs Spine \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Spray Two\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ashtray Navigations","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32293987844167,"sku":"31719919","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3494521.jpg?v=1747778986","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/ashtray-navigations-to-make-a-fool-ask-you-are-the-first","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}