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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…

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Maddy Mussen on this weekend’s must-see shows

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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

‘The breakup was like an amputation that saves you’: Cate Le Bon on healing from heartache and her heavy new album

After a long relationship ended painfully, the acclaimed singer-producer swapped the Californian desert for south Wales – and set to work on her most emotionally direct record yet. ‘It’s been discombobulating,’ she says

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“Clever flurries of musical activity keeping multiple balls in the air. Then it all goes, against expectations, a bit King Crimson”: A prog band won last year’s Mercury Prize. Did you notice?

English Teacher might sound like another cookie-cutter post-punk NME-frendly group, but debut album This Could Be Texas proves they’re about as progressive as it gets

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Black Country, New Road to play London benefit show for Palestine

Cambridge alt.rock band Black Country, New Road announce London gig to raise funds for Medical Aid For Palestinians and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

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Bilbao BBK 2023 festival: Dates, line-up, and how to get tickets

Florence + The Machine, Arctic Monkeys, and The Chemical Brothers are among the artists already announced.

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

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

After a barren January, it's a packed month

Manchester Evening News

Cult guitarist Roy Montgomery on Flying Nun, grief and embracing mistakes: ‘It’s an existential thing’

Beloved by the likes of Dry Cleaning and Grouper, Montgomery’s life has been hit by more than one tragedy, stories he traces in meditative instrumentals

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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