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

<p>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 around</p><p><strong>From</strong> London and Brighton<br><strong>Recommended if you like</strong> Underworld, MGMT, Animal Collective<br><strong>Up next </strong>An as-yet-untitled EP, to be released in 2026</p><p>The 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”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/03/add-to-playlist-the-jackhammer-noise-and-clubby-alt-rock-of-ashnymph-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks">Continue reading...</a>