Diving into the Pounding Noise and Dancefloor Alt-Rock of the Band Ashnymph and This Week's Top Fresh Music

The two singles put out to date by the group Ashnymph resist simple labeling: their own description of the sound as “subconscioussion” leaves listeners guessing. The first single Saltspreader blended a heavy mechanical drumming – guitarist Will Wiffen has at times appeared on stage sporting a shirt that features the symbol of industrial metal pioneers Godflesh – with old-school electronic keys and a guitar riff that subtly echoes the Stooges’ garage rock perennial I Wanna Be Your Dog, before melting into a mass of eerie audio. The desired impact, the trio have suggested, was to conjure highway journeys, “the endless movement of vehicles all day long over vast spans … amber lights after dark”.

The next release, the song Mr Invisible, sits somewhere between nightclub tunes and experimental rock. On one hand, the track’s rhythm, layers of hypnotic electronics, and vocals that arrive either trippily blurred or hypnotically looped in a way that brings back Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman period all point towards the dancefloor. Alternatively, its intense performance-style shifts, edge-of-chaos quality and fuzz – “achieving a crunchy texture is a personal mission,” Wiffen noted – mark it out as undeniably a band creation rather than a lone electronic artist. They've gigged around the independent music circuit in south London for less than a year, “any spot with loud speakers”.

But each is thrilling and unique – mutually and other current music – to make you wonder about Ashnymph's upcoming moves. Regardless of the form, on the basis of these two singles, it’s unlikely to be boring.

Top New Music This Week

Dry Cleaning – Hit My Head All Day
“I absolutely need experiences”​, vocalist Florence Shaw states on their enchanting new track, but across six minutes – with exhales setting the pace – you feel that she can’t work out why.

Danny L Harle – Azimuth (ft Caroline Polachek)
Merging gothic intensity to peak 90s trance – right down to the lyric “and I ask the rain” – the track implies digging out your Cyberdog attire and making your way to a rave, immediately.

Robyn's Acne Studios mix
Robyn's composition for the Acne Studios' spring/summer 2026 presentation previews her TBA ninth album, including Soulwax-worthy grinding guitar, Benny Benassi-style thrust and the words “my body’s a spaceship with the ovaries on hyperdrive”.

Jordana's Like That
Critics praised her soft rock album Lively Premonition last year and the American artist keeps displaying her stunning facility for chorus writing as she expresses unrequited feelings.

Molly Nilsson's Get a Life
The one-woman Swedish pop operation dropped the record Amateur this week, and this cut is incredible: a synthetic guitar line jerks forward at hardcore punk pace as Nilsson insists we take control of life.

Superstar by Artemas
After documenting jaded love and sex on his smash I Like the Way You Kiss Me and its underrated parent mixtape Yustyna, the UK-Cypriot artist is hopelessly devoted to his latest lover amid icy synth-driven sound.

Miss America by Jennifer Walton
Off an impressive first record, a soft synth lament about Walton learning of her father’s death in an transit lodge, mapping the strange setting in softly sung lines: “Strip mall, drug deal, panic attacks.”