DRY CLEANING – NEW LONG LEG

One of the standout albums of 2021. It's everything you expected and more. Simply amazing. Dry Cleaning's 10-track debut album, which includes ‘Strong Feelings’ and 2020’s single ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’, was recorded at Rockfield Studios in rural Wales with producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding). Following on from their thrillingly taut 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess, New Long Leg is more ambitious and complex, with lead singer Florence Shaw’s spoken vocals tightly intertwined with the band’s restless instrumentals. With lyrics preoccupied by themes like dissociation, escapism, daydreaming, complicated feelings of love, anger, revenge, anxiety, the kitchen, lethargy, forgetfulness, and survival, Shaw says, “the title is ambiguous; a new long leg could be an expensive present or a growth or a table repair.”