BURSTCurrently 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
From London and Brighton
Recommended if you like Underworld, MGMT, Animal Collective
Up next An as-yet-untitled EP, to be released in 2026
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”.
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