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Both tracks released so far by Ashnymph are hard to categorise: their own description of the sound as “subconscioussion” leaves listeners guessing. Their initial track Saltspreader married a jackhammer industrial beat – guitarist Will Wiffen has sometimes been seen on stage sporting a shirt that displays the emblem of the trailblazing band Godflesh – with retro-style synths and a guitar line that partly brings to mind the classic Stooges track I Wanna Be Your Dog, before transforming into a barrier of unsettling sound. The planned result, the group has mentioned, was to conjure highway journeys, “the ceaseless flow of vehicles all day long over great lengths … nighttime orange glows”.

Its follow-up, Mr Invisible, falls between nightclub tunes and unconventional alternative rock. On one hand, the track’s rhythm, strata of mesmerizing synths, and vocals that arrive either psychedelically smeared or hypnotically looped in a way that brings back Dubnobasswithmyheadman-era Underworld all suggest the club floor. Conversely, its powerful concert-like energy, edge-of-chaos quality and overdrive – “making everything sound crunchy is a lifelong ambition,” the musician stated – mark it out as clearly a group effort rather than a solitary home producer. They've gigged around south London’s DIY scene for a short time, “anywhere that will turn the PA up loud”.

But both are exciting and different enough – mutually and anything else around at the moment – to make you wonder about what Ashnymph might do next. Regardless of the form, on the basis of these two singles, it’s probably not dull.

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