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New Dry Cleaning!

“a surrealist masterpiece” - Mojo

Apple Music:

For the most part, Dry Cleaning likes to make music without talking about it too much beforehand. But the London quartet—vocalist Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, bassist Lewis Maynard, and drummer Nick Buxton—did discuss one idea when it came to the writing sessions for their third album. This, they decided, should be a record that evokes the sensory overload and hustle and bustle of what it feels like to walk through a city.

As it happens, this was exactly the description that producer Cate Le Bon, also a solo artist and art-pop dynamo in her own right, used as she listened through the band’s demos. Seeking to add a panoramic expanse to the post-punk and angular experimental-rock grooves of their first two albums—2021’s New Long Leg and 2022 follow-up Stumpwork—Dry Cleaning realized they had found the perfect artistic foil. “Cate seemed to understand what we wanted from the record before we could verbalize it or before we even knew what we wanted,” Maynard tells Apple Music. “She seemed to understand where we were at.”