It?s both heart-warming and infuriating to realise that music like this was being put out in the mid nineties when the world was ruled by guitar dinosaurs. Thing is, unless you were plugged directly into the scene?s conduits you would?ve missed the whole damn thing as it quietly spread. Thankfully the man behind the band Phil Todd is funnelling chunks of the harder to find material through his own Revival imprint, and it?s easier to get a hold of it this time around. A reasonably short release in the Ashtray Navigations scheme of things, this CD-R features four unreleased tracks over fifty minutes with each one (consciously or unconsciously, it?s impossible to tell) covering a different aspect of Ashtray?s gargantuan range. ?Hands?? is unreleased material left over from sessions for their very first LP release, covering bases that Todd has since obliterated in his wanderings through psychedelic noise/rock. As with most of Todd?s music you?d be hard pushed to find a guitar sound as drenched in analogue crust outside of Matthew Bower?s house. Here he goes one better that that, retaining the clarity of the instrument?s idealism through the wrap of insomniac rust. The other three untitled tracks move through the eclectic provinces of aqua-electric pulses, coffin-rim rubbed reverb and shortwave radio strategies ? but it?s the opening guitar shot that sits in the head the longest. It?s always felt like Todd?s guitar-centred cuts are his further reaching, despite the instrument?s heavy links to form. ?Hands?? is yet another outstanding Ashtray comet. 8/10 -- Scott McKeating (15 April, 2008)