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Both tracks put out so far by Ashnymph defy easy classification: the band's own tag of the sound as “subconscioussion” provides few hints. Their initial track Saltspreader married a pounding industrial rhythm – guitarist Will Wiffen has occasionally been spotted on stage sporting a shirt that displays the emblem of Godflesh, icons of industrial metal – with vintage-sounding synthesisers and a guitar riff that vaguely recalls the enduring garage rock anthem I Wanna Be Your Dog, before dissolving into a mass of eerie audio. The desired impact, the band has indicated, was to conjure highway journeys, “the endless movement of vehicles all day long over huge distances … orange lights at night”.

The subsequent track, Mr Invisible, falls between dance music and unconventional alternative rock. Firstly, the song's beat, layers of hypnotic electronics, and lyrics that appear either psychedelically smeared or mesmerizingly repeated in a way that evokes Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman period all suggest the dance space. Alternatively, its powerful concert-like energy, brink-of-disorder feel and overdrive – “getting that crisp distortion is a personal mission,” the musician stated – mark it out as clearly a group effort rather than a solitary home producer. They've gigged around the independent music circuit in south London for under a year, “any venue that cranks the volume”.

But each is thrilling and unique – mutually and anything else around at the moment – to make you wonder about what Ashnymph might do next. Regardless of the form, on the basis of these two singles, it’s probably not dull.

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