From London and BrightonRecommended if you like Underworld, MGMT, Animal CollectiveUp next An as-yet-untitled EP, to be released in 2026The 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”.Its follow-up, Mr Invisible, sits somewhere between club music and left-field alt-rock. On one hand, the track’s rhythm, layers of hypnotic electronics, and vocals that arrive either psychedelically smeared or hypnotically looped in a way that recalls Dubnobasswithmyheadman-era Underworld all point towards the dancefloor. On the other, its forceful live-sounding dynamics, edge-of-chaos quality and distortion – “making everything sound crunchy is a lifelong ambition,” Wiffen has said – mark it out as very much the work of a band rather than a bedroom-bound producer. They’ve been playing around south London’s DIY scene for less than a year, “anywhere that will turn the PA up loud”.But both are exciting and different enough – from each other and anything else around at the moment – to make you wonder what Ashnymph might do next. Whatever it is, on the evidence of Saltspreader and Mr Invisible, it’s unlikely to be boring. Alexis PetridisThis week’s best new tracksBeguiling … Dry Cleaning. Photograph: Max MiechowskiDry Cleaning – Hit My Head All Day“I simply must have experiences”​, Florence Shaw decides on her band’s beguiling return, but across six minutes – with human breath marking time – you get the sense that she can’t work out why. BBTDanny L Harle – Azimuth (ft Caroline Polachek)Welding Evanescence goth drama to peak 90s trance – right down to the lyric “and I ask the rain” – Azimuth suggests dusting off your best Cyberdog wear and heading south west to rave, stat. LSRobyn – Acne Studios mixRobyn’s soundtrack for the Swedish designer’s SS26 show previews her TBA ninth album, including Soulwax-worthy grinding guitar, Benny Benassi-style thrust and the lyrics “my body’s a spaceship with the ovaries on hyperdrive”. (It’s not on streaming: listen here.) LSJordana – Like ThatWe loved her soft rock album Lively Premonition last year and the US singer-songwriter continues to show off her stunning facility for chorus writing as she laments her latest hopeless infatuation. BBTMolly Nilsson – Get a LifeThe one-woman Swedish pop operation released her latest album Amateur this week, and this track from it is extraordinary: a synthetic guitar line jerks forward at hardcore punk pace as Nilsson demands we grab life by the scruff of the neck. BBTArtemas – SuperstarAfter documenting jaded love and sex on his megahit I Like the Way You Kiss Me and its underrated parent mixtape Yustyna, the British-Cypriot star is wretchedly in thrall to his latest lover amid pulsating coldwave production. BBTJennifer Walton – Miss AmericaFrom one of the year’s standout debuts, a crushed synth hymnal about Walton learning of her father’s cancer diagnosis in an airport hotel, tracing her uncanny surroundings in tender incantations: “Strip mall, drug deal, panic attacks.” LSSubscribe to the Guardian’s rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify.