DRY CLEANING
Dry Cleaning: “as casual as a conversation in a coffee shop”
BENRAYNER
St umpwork
4AD
9/10
Strikingly unique indie sprec hgesang from London quartet. By Tom Pinnock
IF you’ve turned on BBC 6Music in the last few years, you’ll have probably heard a lot of talking; not the DJs, but rather the prevailing tide of sprechgesang in modern indie. Arguably starting with The Fall and The Flying Lizards, it was carried on by Pulp, Earl Brutus, Life Without Buildings and then The Streets, and is now flooding our airwaves. It comes in many forms: there are the modern pioneers like Sleaford Mods and Courtney Barnett, the cartoony post-punk of Idles and Yard Act, the infectious Wet Leg and Self Esteem, the peerless Fontaines DC and Black Country, New Road.