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The pair of releases put out up to now by the group Ashnymph are hard to categorise: the band's own tag of their work as “subconscioussion” doesn’t offer many clues. Debut Saltspreader married a jackhammer industrial beat – guitarist Will Wiffen has at times appeared on stage sporting a shirt that displays the emblem of Godflesh, icons of industrial metal – with retro-style synths and a riff that partly brings to mind the enduring garage rock anthem I Wanna Be Your Dog, before dissolving into a mass of eerie audio. Its intended effect, the band has indicated, was to suggest road trips, “the endless movement of vehicles all day long over huge distances … amber lights after dark”.

The next release, Mr Invisible, sits somewhere between club music and left-field alt-rock. For one thing, the track’s rhythm, strata of mesmerizing synths, and lyrics that appear either trippily blurred or spellbindingly cyclical in a way that brings back the classic Underworld album era all point towards the club floor. Alternatively, its powerful concert-like energy, edge-of-chaos quality and fuzz – “getting that crisp distortion is a lifelong ambition,” the musician stated – set it apart as very much the work of a band rather than a lone electronic artist. They’ve been playing around the self-made music community of south London for less than a year, “anywhere that will turn the PA up loud”.

But both are exciting and different enough – from each other and anything else around at the moment – to spark curiosity about Ashnymph's upcoming moves. Whatever it is, on the strength of these tracks, it’s probably not dull.

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