Hailing from London and Brighton
If you enjoy Underworld, MGMT, Animal Collective
On the horizon A new EP planned for 2026, currently without a title
The pair of releases shared up to now by the group Ashnymph resist simple labeling: their personal label of their music as “subconscioussion” doesn’t offer many clues. The first single Saltspreader married a heavy mechanical drumming – bandmember Will Wiffen has sometimes been seen on stage sporting a shirt that displays the emblem of industrial metal pioneers Godflesh – with vintage-sounding synthesisers and a guitar line that partly brings to mind the classic Stooges track I Wanna Be Your Dog, before transforming into a mass of eerie audio. The planned result, the band has indicated, was to suggest road trips, “the ceaseless flow of vehicles all day long over great lengths … nighttime orange glows”.
The subsequent track, Mr Invisible, sits somewhere between dance music and left-field alt-rock. On one hand, the cut's tempo, layers of hypnotic electronics, and vocals that arrive either hallucinogenically distorted or spellbindingly cyclical in a way that recalls Dubnobasswithmyheadman-era Underworld all suggest the dance space. On the other, its powerful concert-like energy, edge-of-chaos quality and overdrive – “making everything sound crunchy is a lifelong ambition,” the musician stated – distinguish it as clearly a group effort rather than a lone electronic artist. They’ve been playing around the self-made music community of south London for less than a year, “anywhere that will turn the PA up loud”.
But each is thrilling and unique – from each other and anything else around at the moment – to prompt questions about Ashnymph's upcoming moves. No matter what it is, on the strength of these tracks, it’s unlikely to be boring.
This Week’s Best New Tracks
Dry Cleaning – Hit My Head All Day
“I simply must have experiences”, singer Florence Shaw declares on their enchanting new track, but across six minutes – with exhales setting the pace – you get the sense that she can’t work out why.
Danny L Harle's Azimuth featuring Caroline Polachek
Merging gothic intensity to peak 90s trance – including the line “and I ask the rain” – Azimuth suggests reviving your rave outfits and dancing the night away, right away.
Acne Studios mix by Robyn
The music by Robyn for the Swedish designer’s SS26 show previews her TBA ninth album, including gritty guitars reminiscent of Soulwax, pulsating rhythms in the Benassi vein and the verse “my body’s a spaceship with the ovaries on hyperdrive”.
Like That by Jordana
We loved her album Lively Premonition last year and the Stateside musician further demonstrates her impressive hook-crafting ability as she laments her latest hopeless infatuation.
Molly Nilsson's Get a Life
The independent Swedish artist dropped the record Amateur this week, and this song is extraordinary: a electronic guitar part thrusts forward rapidly as Nilsson insists we seize the day.
Superstar by Artemas
Post explorations of tired relationships on his hit single I Like the Way You Kiss Me and its overlooked mixtape Yustyna, the British-Cypriot star is completely captivated by his new flame amid icy synth-driven sound.
Jennifer Walton's Miss America
Taken from a notable debut album, a delicate electronic ballad about Walton learning of her father’s death in an transit lodge, tracing her uncanny surroundings in tender incantations: “Strip mall, drug deal, panic attacks.”