Getting the call to be a part of a festival line-up isn’t an unusual occurrence in the life of a band, especially one as beloved as 2021’s breakthrough post-punk quartet Dry Cleaning. But getting the ...

It is a shame that Dry Cleaning are so often talked about simply as a post-punk band – or even worse, lumped in with a ‘sprechgesang’ movement. They are a four-piece guitar act, and Florence Shaw’s ...

“I don’t want to go on about it / But we’re back in business / Just a sweet, natural start / We will flower,” Florence Shaw declares on “Anna Calls from the Arctic,” the first song on Dry Cleaning’s ...

"Kwenchy Kups" is classic DGAF territory – it's a track about "things being shit, but they're gonna be ok, and I'm gonna see the otters". I can't pin it down but there's something in Shaw's ...

Like many young bands in 2022, Dry Cleaning have an origin story that’s difficult to separate from the effects of the COVID pandemic and its associated quarantines. Last year’s debut album, New Long ...

Dry Cleaning are back, following up their great debut album with Stumpwork, which will be released on October 21 via 4AD. Preorder it on white vinyl. Like New Long Leg, the band made the new album ...

“Is it still OK to call you my disco pickle?” By the time that Florence Shaw, Dry Cleaning’s conversational poet-in-residence, asks that question on “Hot Penny Day,” a tune that marks the halfway mark ...

Upon returning to Rockfield Studios to once again work with John Parish, the quartet of Florence Shaw, Nick Buxton, Tom Dowse and Lewis Maynard have achieved both a continuation and departure of the ...

Creating a fine line between innocence and evil – the banal and the melodramatic – is what makes Dry Cleaning so fantastic. With New Long Leg, their 2021 debut, they gave us a healthy dose of pretty ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest struggled to get his words out after finding out that a box which had been wrapped up in “brown paper and a tablecloth” was worth a five-figure sum. Article continues below ...

Over the past few years, speak-singing has become a point of contention amid a particular group of music fans, as though hip-hop never existed. It’s easy to feel disillusioned by cultural trends, ...

After breaking out on the strength of one of 2021’s best albums—their electric full-length debut New Long Leg—London’s Dry Cleaning are back to make their mark on 2022. The four-piece have announced ...