Ashtray Navigations is an English psychedelic noise project centered upon Phil Todd, active since 1991. The group operated out of Todd's home in Stoke-on-Trent, England, from which he also ran the record label Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers. The project has seen many releases through labels such as Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, Siltbreeze, Jewelled Antler, American Tapes, Menlo Park, E.F. Tapes and Freedom From. The sound varies and defies description, but often incorporates extended droning and atonal extrapolations. Critic James Blackshaw described the Ashtray Navigations sound as "sub-aquatic synth bubble, busted-up cassette-tape hiss and distorted electric guitar hover that sounds like a mythical god banished from the realm of light and trying desperately to clamber his/her way out of a dark bottomless void where time itself stands still." The Wire's David Keenan has described Phil Todd/Ashtray Navigations as "a trashcan antidote to LaMonte Young."

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