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“Cruise Ship Designer sounded so weird, I would have been scared if you’d said it would ever become a single”: We speak to Dry Cleaning about the making of the Cate Le Bon-produced Secret Love

Post-punk indie futurists Dry Cleaning have set the bar high for 2026 albums with their masterful third album Secret Love. They tells us how they created it in cahoots with acclaimed producer Cate Le Bon…

MusicRadar

"A profoundly modern album - puzzling, but endearingly so." Dry Cleaning continue to charm and confuse with excellent, expansive third album, Secret Love

South London post-punks evolve their sound, stay utterly unique

Louder

Dry Cleaning: Secret Love review – the south London band double down on their haunting, peculiar brilliance

The standout act in the sprechgesang wave, the four-piece’s newly expansive sound carries singer Florence Shaw’s distinctive tales of mundane lives spiralling out of control

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Dry Cleaning on making (sheer genius) music for 'oddballs'

South London’s Dry Cleaning have just written their best album so far by delving ever more into their own weirdness

Evening Standard

Dry Cleaning review – left-field art rockers are a deadpan delight

Invisible Wind Factory, LiverpoolThe post-punk band led with impassive cool by hypnotic frontwoman Florence Shaw are a genuinely radical band

The Guardian - UK

Dry Cleaning review – artful theatrics and clever songwriting, but no singalongs

The post-punk quartet balance knowing pretension with cutting social realism as they perform tracks about missing tortoises and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

The Guardian - UK

These are the gigs we're going to in February 2023

After a barren January, it's a packed month

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Dry Cleaning: ‘We bond over food a lot. It’s a big part of the band’

They’re the group everyone seemed to discover in lockdown. With a second album just out, the London four-piece discuss their poetic post-punk – and why they owe it all to Wimpy

The Guardian - UK

Dry Cleaning: Stumpwork review – deadpan chat, funk and hypnotic soundscapes

The follow-up to last year’s fine debut New Long Leg is more focused, with Florence Shaw’s low-key narration framed by powerful sounds

The Guardian - UK

Dry Cleaning review, Stumpwork: Spoken-word monologues that recall Philomena Cunk

Any moments of flourish are rendered dreary by Florence Shaw’s one-note meanderings about gaming mouses, brain parasites and Arctic expeditions she isn’t on

The Independent UK

Secret Garden Party review – math-goth and glitchy electropop satisfies the up-for-anything crowd

Hardcore revellers guarantee success as Deep Tan, Dry Cleaning, MØ and others perform in the countryside

The Guardian - UK

Dry Cleaning; Oumou Sangaré review – stars of Grace Jones’s Meltdown

The deadpan London post-punk band and the gloriously danceable Malian musician offer a delicious contrast early in the festival

The Guardian - UK

Stars of summer: Florence Shaw, Claire Rushbrook, Arthur Hughes and Patricia Allison

Some of the actors and musicians in the summer’s most exciting new shows, from Grace Jones’s Meltdown to a radical Richard III, give us a taste of what to expect

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