Discovering the Jackhammer Noise and Clubby Alternative Rock of the Band Ashnymph and This Week's Best Fresh Music

Both tracks released to date by Ashnymph defy easy classification: the band's own tag of their music as “subconscioussion” leaves listeners guessing. The first single Saltspreader combined a pounding industrial rhythm – member Will Wiffen has at times appeared on stage in a tee that displays the emblem of Godflesh, icons of industrial metal – with old-school electronic keys and a riff that subtly echoes the Stooges’ garage rock perennial I Wanna Be Your Dog, before melting into a barrier of unsettling sound. The desired impact, the band has indicated, was to conjure highway journeys, “the grinding circulation of vehicles around the clock over great lengths … amber lights after dark”.

Its follow-up, Mr Invisible, falls between club music and unconventional alternative rock. On one hand, the song's beat, layers of hypnotic electronics, and singing that comes either psychedelically smeared or mesmerizingly repeated in a way that recalls the classic Underworld album era all indicate the dancefloor. On the other, its intense performance-style shifts, near-anarchic character and distortion – “getting that crisp distortion is a lifelong ambition,” Wiffen has said – distinguish it as very much the work of a band rather than a lone electronic artist. They've performed around south London’s DIY scene for less than a year, “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 make you wonder about the band's future direction. Regardless of the form, on the basis of these two singles, it’s sure to be engaging.

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Robyn – Acne Studios mix
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Jordana's Like That
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Molly Nilsson's Get a Life
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Artemas – Superstar
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Jennifer Walton – Miss America
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