Discovering this Jackhammer Noise and Dancefloor Alt-Rock of the Band Ashnymph and This Week's Top Fresh Music

The pair of releases put out up to now by the group Ashnymph resist simple labeling: their personal label of their work as “subconscioussion” leaves listeners guessing. Debut Saltspreader married a jackhammer industrial beat – guitarist Will Wiffen has occasionally been spotted on stage wearing a T-shirt that features the symbol of Godflesh, icons of industrial metal – with old-school electronic keys and a guitar line that partly brings to mind the Stooges’ garage rock perennial I Wanna Be Your Dog, before dissolving into a wall of disquieting noise. The desired impact, the trio have suggested, was to conjure highway journeys, “the ceaseless flow of vehicles 24-hours a day over huge distances … orange lights at night”.

The next release, Mr Invisible, occupies a space between dance music and unconventional alternative rock. Firstly, the cut's tempo, layers of hypnotic electronics, and vocals that arrive either psychedelically smeared or hypnotically looped in a way that recalls Dubnobasswithmyheadman-era Underworld all suggest the club floor. Alternatively, its intense performance-style shifts, brink-of-disorder feel and distortion – “getting that crisp distortion is a long-term goal,” the musician stated – distinguish it as undeniably a band creation rather than a solitary home producer. They’ve been playing around south London’s DIY scene for under a year, “any spot with loud speakers”.

But each is thrilling and unique – mutually and contemporary releases – to prompt questions about Ashnymph's upcoming moves. Regardless of the form, on the strength of these tracks, it’s sure to be engaging.

Top New Music This Week

Dry Cleaning's Hit My Head All Day
“I really require adventures”​, singer Florence Shaw declares on her band’s beguiling return, but throughout the song's duration – with human breath marking time – you get the sense that she's unsure of the reason.

Danny L Harle's Azimuth featuring Caroline Polachek
Combining Evanescence's dark flair to peak 90s trance – right down to the lyric “and I ask the rain” – Azimuth suggests digging out your Cyberdog attire and heading south west to rave, right away.

Acne Studios mix by Robyn
Robyn’s soundtrack for the the fashion brand's latest show hints at her next record, including Soulwax-worthy grinding guitar, Benny Benassi-style thrust and the lyrics “my body’s a spaceship with the ovaries on hyperdrive”.

Jordana's Like That
Listeners adored her record Lively Premonition last year and the Stateside musician continues to show off her impressive hook-crafting ability as she sings about a futile crush.

Get a Life by Molly Nilsson
The one-woman Swedish pop operation released her latest album Amateur this week, and this song is incredible: a synthetic guitar line thrusts forward rapidly as the singer urges we grab life by the scruff of the neck.

Artemas' Superstar
Following tales of weary romance on his megahit I Like the Way You Kiss Me and its accompanying release Yustyna, the British-Cypriot star is completely captivated by his current partner amid pulsating coldwave production.

Miss America by Jennifer Walton
From one of the year’s standout debuts, a soft synth lament about Walton discovering her dad had died in an hotel near an airport, mapping the strange setting in gentle refrains: “Shopping plaza, illegal trade, anxiety episodes.”