{"product_id":"ashtray-navigations-to-make-a-fool-ask-and-you-are-the-first","title":"Ashtray Navigations – To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First [LP]","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Blackest Ever Black presents To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First, the latest - and, for us, greatest - full-length entry in Ashtray Navigations' uniquely important, uniquely sprawling – possibly sentient and self-multiplying – discography. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt 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 Todd wrenches out of his instrument these days is a language unto itself (perhaps it always was)... a helical, ecstatic, grieving howl...a (super)natural efflorescence, beyond earthly description or transcription...ur-rock and post-everything. But equal emphasis is given here to pulsating machine rhythms and lush keyboard textures, with killer contributions from longtime fellow traveller Mel O'Dubhshlaine. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere were pre-echoes of all this in the recent(ish) Fluctuants and Aero Infinite: but To Make A Fool feels like the culmination, or the fullest expression, of something which was only glimpsed in those earlier works. The side-long ‘Spray Two’ - gently eddying string-pads gradually slashed to all f***k with fraught piano improvisations - is a masterpiece in its own right. At its delirious peak, the whole thing boils over into brooding, arpeggiated noir-techno – Michael Mann's steadicam roaming Leeds' B-roads, some kind of tangerine nightmare - before finally cooling into a bleary starfield of pure and sumptuous hypno-tone. This LP 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 freakout underground.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlackest Ever Black, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"naturestripstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42671957278961,"sku":"BLACKEST056","price":44.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/8859\/0065\/products\/ashnav_tmafaayatf.jpg?v=1653627699","url":"https:\/\/naturestripstore.myshopify.com\/products\/ashtray-navigations-to-make-a-fool-ask-and-you-are-the-first","provider":"naturestripstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}