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The two singles shared up to now by the group Ashnymph are hard to categorise: their personal label of their music as “subconscioussion” provides few hints. Debut Saltspreader combined a pounding industrial rhythm – bandmember Will Wiffen has at times appeared on stage sporting a shirt that bears the logo of industrial metal pioneers Godflesh – with vintage-sounding synthesisers and a riff that vaguely recalls the enduring garage rock anthem I Wanna Be Your Dog, before melting into a barrier of unsettling sound. The desired impact, the group has mentioned, was to evoke motorway travel, “the grinding circulation of vehicles 24-hours a day over vast spans … amber lights after dark”.

The subsequent track, Mr Invisible, occupies a space between nightclub tunes and left-field alt-rock. On one hand, the song's beat, layers of hypnotic electronics, and singing that comes either psychedelically smeared or spellbindingly cyclical in a way that brings back the classic Underworld album era all indicate the club floor. Alternatively, its intense performance-style shifts, near-anarchic character and distortion – “getting that crisp distortion is a lifelong ambition,” the musician stated – mark it out as undeniably a band creation rather than a lone electronic artist. They've gigged around the independent music circuit in south London for under a year, “anywhere that will turn the PA up loud”.

But each is thrilling and unique – from each other and other current music – 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.

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