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Add to playlist: the jackhammer noise and clubby alt-rock of Ashnymph and the week’s best new tracks

Currently playing ‘anywhere that will turn the PA up loud’ the trio’s edge-of-chaos dynamics and hypnotic layered beats mark them out as different from anything else aroundFrom London and BrightonRecommended if you like Underworld, MGMT, Animal CollectiveUp next An as-yet-untitled EP, to be released in 2026The two singles released thus far by Ashnymph are hard to categorise: their own description of their music as “subconscioussion” doesn’t offer many clues. Debut Saltspreader married a jackhammer industrial beat – bandmember Will Wiffen has occasionally been spotted on stage wearing a T-shirt that bears the logo of industrial metal pioneers Godflesh – with vintage-sounding synthesisers and a guitar riff that vaguely recalls the Stooges’ 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, “the grinding circulation of vehicles 24-hours a day over huge distances … orange lights at night”. Continue reading...

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