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The two singles put out up to now by the group Ashnymph defy easy classification: their own description of their music as “subconscioussion” doesn’t offer many clues. Debut Saltspreader combined a pounding industrial rhythm – bandmember Will Wiffen has at times appeared on stage sporting a shirt that displays the emblem of industrial metal pioneers Godflesh – with retro-style synths and a guitar riff that vaguely recalls the enduring garage rock anthem I Wanna Be Your Dog, before dissolving into a mass of eerie audio. The planned result, the group has mentioned, was to conjure highway journeys, “the endless movement of vehicles around the clock over great lengths … amber lights after dark”.

The next release, the song Mr Invisible, sits somewhere between club music and unconventional alternative rock. Firstly, the cut's tempo, layers of hypnotic electronics, and singing that comes either trippily blurred or mesmerizingly repeated in a way that brings back Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman period all suggest the dance space. On the other, its forceful live-sounding dynamics, brink-of-disorder feel and fuzz – “making everything sound crunchy is a personal mission,” Wiffen has said – set it apart as very much the work of a band rather than a solitary home producer. They've performed around the self-made music community of south London for a short time, “any spot with loud speakers”.

But each is thrilling and unique – mutually and other current music – to make you wonder about what Ashnymph might do next. Whatever it is, on the basis of these two singles, it’s sure to be engaging.

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