INSTANT KARMA
Dry Cleaning
Riveting post-punk pop, fuelled by art, anxiety and “cheap chocolate mousse”
WE’RE NEW HERE
Dry Cleaning: “It’s hard work on all fronts”
POONEH GHANA; DEAN CHALKLEY
“NOW that we have records out and are signed to a label, it’s hard to communicate just how casual the whole thing was,” says Florence Shaw, still with a faint note of wonder in her voice, four years on.
The singer is considering the early days of London four-piece Dry Cleaning, whose deadpan name belies the driving post-punk tension in their music and the intimate nature of Shaw’s lyrics, as exemplified by their 2021 debut, New Long Leg.