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From<\/strong> London and Brighton The two singles released thus far by Ashnymph are hard to categorise: their own description of their music as \u201csubconscioussion\u201d doesn\u2019t offer many clues. Debut Saltspreader married a jackhammer industrial beat \u2013 bandmember Will Wiffen has occasionally been spotted on stage wearing a T-shirt that bears the logo of industrial metal pioneers Godflesh \u2013 with vintage-sounding synthesisers and a guitar riff that vaguely recalls the Stooges\u2019 garage rock perennial I Wanna Be Your Dog, before dissolving into a wall of disquieting noise. Its intended effect, the trio have suggested, was to evoke motorway travel, \u201cthe grinding circulation of vehicles 24-hours a day over huge distances \u2026 orange lights at night\u201d.<\/p>\n Its follow-up, Mr Invisible, sits somewhere between club music and left-field alt-rock. On one hand, the track\u2019s rhythm, layers of hypnotic electronics, and vocals that arrive either psychedelically smeared or hypnotically looped in a way that recalls Dubnobasswithmyheadman-era Underworld all point towards the dancefloor. On the other, its forceful live-sounding dynamics, edge-of-chaos quality and distortion \u2013 \u201cmaking everything sound crunchy is a lifelong ambition,\u201d Wiffen has said \u2013 mark it out as very much the work of a band rather than a bedroom-bound producer. They\u2019ve been playing around south London\u2019s DIY scene for less than a year, \u201canywhere that will turn the PA up loud\u201d.<\/p>\n But both are exciting and different enough \u2013 from each other and anything else around at the moment \u2013 to make you wonder what Ashnymph might do next. Whatever it is, on the evidence of Saltspreader and Mr Invisible, it\u2019s unlikely to be boring. Alexis Petridis<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span>Beguiling \u2026 Dry Cleaning.<\/span> Photograph: Max Miechowski<\/p>\n Dry Cleaning \u2013 Hit My Head All Day<\/strong> Danny L Harle \u2013 Azimuth (ft Caroline Polachek)<\/strong> Robyn \u2013 Acne Studios mix<\/strong> Jordana \u2013 Like That<\/strong> Molly Nilsson \u2013 Get a Life<\/strong> Artemas \u2013 Superstar<\/strong> Jennifer Walton \u2013 Miss America<\/strong> Subscribe to the Guardian\u2019s rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From London and BrightonRecommended if you like Underworld, MGMT, Animal CollectiveUp next An as-yet-untitled EP, to be released in 2026 The two singles released thus far by Ashnymph are hard to categorise: their own description of their music as \u201csubconscioussion\u201d doesn\u2019t offer many clues. Debut Saltspreader married a jackhammer industrial beat \u2013 bandmember Will Wiffen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1137,15676,15677,15675,15674,686,1953,1138,1142,969],"class_list":{"0":"post-26038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-add","9":"tag-altrock","10":"tag-ashnymph","11":"tag-clubby","12":"tag-jackhammer","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-noise","15":"tag-playlist","16":"tag-tracks","17":"tag-weeks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Recommended if you like<\/strong> Underworld, MGMT, Animal Collective
Up next <\/strong>An as-yet-untitled EP, to be released in 2026<\/p>\nThis week\u2019s best new tracks<\/h2>\n
<\/strong>\u201cI simply must have experiences\u201d\u200b, Florence Shaw decides on her band\u2019s beguiling return, but across six minutes \u2013 with human breath marking time \u2013 you get the sense that she can\u2019t work out why. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>Welding Evanescence goth drama to peak 90s trance \u2013 right down to the lyric \u201cand I ask the rain\u201d \u2013 Azimuth suggests dusting off your best Cyberdog wear and heading south west to rave, stat. LS<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>Robyn\u2019s soundtrack for the Swedish designer\u2019s SS26 show previews her TBA ninth album, including Soulwax-worthy grinding guitar, Benny Benassi-style thrust and the lyrics \u201cmy body\u2019s a spaceship with the ovaries on hyperdrive\u201d. (It\u2019s not on streaming: listen here.) LS<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>We loved her soft rock album Lively Premonition last year and the US singer-songwriter continues to show off her stunning facility for chorus writing as she laments her latest hopeless infatuation. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>The one-woman Swedish pop operation released her latest album Amateur this week, and this track from it is extraordinary: a synthetic guitar line jerks forward at hardcore punk pace as Nilsson demands we grab life by the scruff of the neck. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>After documenting jaded love and sex on his megahit I Like the Way You Kiss Me and its underrated parent mixtape Yustyna, the British-Cypriot star is wretchedly in thrall to his latest lover amid pulsating coldwave production. BBT<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>From one of the year\u2019s standout debuts, a crushed synth hymnal about Walton learning of her father\u2019s death in an airport hotel, tracing her uncanny surroundings in tender incantations: \u201cStrip mall, drug deal, panic attacks.\u201d LS<\/em><\/p>\n