Discovering this Jackhammer Noise and Clubby Alternative Rock of Ashnymph and the Week's Best New Tracks

Both tracks released so far by the group Ashnymph are hard to categorise: their personal label of their work as “subconscioussion” doesn’t offer many clues. Their initial track Saltspreader combined a pounding industrial rhythm – guitarist Will Wiffen has occasionally been spotted on stage in a tee that displays the emblem of the trailblazing band Godflesh – with old-school electronic keys and a guitar riff that vaguely recalls the classic Stooges track I Wanna Be Your Dog, before transforming into a barrier of unsettling sound. The planned result, the band has indicated, was to suggest road trips, “the grinding circulation of vehicles 24-hours a day over great lengths … amber lights after dark”.

The subsequent track, Mr Invisible, sits somewhere between club music and left-field alt-rock. Firstly, the track’s rhythm, layers of hypnotic electronics, and lyrics that appear either psychedelically smeared or hypnotically looped in a way that brings back the classic Underworld album era all indicate the club floor. Conversely, its forceful live-sounding dynamics, edge-of-chaos quality and distortion – “making everything sound crunchy is a long-term goal,” the musician stated – set it apart as clearly a group effort rather than a solitary home producer. They've performed around the independent music circuit in south London for a short time, “anywhere that will turn the PA up loud”.

But each is thrilling and unique – from one another and anything else around at the moment – to prompt questions about what Ashnymph might do next. No matter what it is, on the basis of these two singles, it’s sure to be engaging.

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Jennifer Walton – Miss America
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