Dry Cleaning tonight – recorded live for Steve Lamacq at BBC 6 Music on January 5th of this year.
Mark Redfern over at The Radar has a few words about the Dry Cleaning in their October 2025 issue – if you missed it, here it is:
South-London band Dry Cleaning are releasing a new album, Secret Love, on January 9, 2026 via 4AD. Now they have announced some new tour dates that include shows in North America, Europe, and the UK. Tickets go on sale this Friday, October 17, at 10 a.m. local time. Check out all the dates below.
Fellow musician Cate Le Bon produced Secret Love.Previously they shared its first single, “Hit My Head All Day,” which was #1 on our Songs of the Week list.
The band features singer Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton, and bassist Lewis Maynard.
Dry Cleaning worked on Secret Love at various studios, including Jeff Tweedy’s The Loft in Chicago, with Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox at Sonic Studios in Dublin, and finally with Cate Le Bon at Black Box in the Loire Valley in France.
“Being in a room with them and hearing that vitality and life force that exists between them all, it’s such a unique expression,” Le Bon says in a press release.
Of “Hit My Head All Day,” Shaw says: “The song is about manipulation of the body and mind. The lyrics were initially inspired by the use of misinformation on social media by the far right. There are powerful people that seek to influence our behaviour for their own gain; to buy certain things, to vote a certain way. I find it hard to read people’s intentions and decide who to trust, even in everyday life. It’s easy to fall under the influence of a sinister stranger who seems like a friend. We took a playful approach to the song. At one point it had harmonica on it instead of a vocal. At the demo stage we were inspired by There’s a Riot Goin’ On by Sly and the Family Stone.”
Dry Cleaning began with the two EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess EP in 2019. These were followed by their debut LP New Long Leg in 2021 and most recent LP Stumpworkin 2022. In 2023 they released the SwampyEP.
If you don’t already know, you do now. Latest word on their U.S. is a cancellation due to economic issues (but I have a sneaking suspicion something else is at play.
Whatever it is, no excuse not to crank this one up and relax.
