Post-punk indie futurists Dry Cleaning have set the bar high for 2026 albums with their masterful third album Secret Love.

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“I like to challenge myself,” Dry Cleaning vocalist Florence Shaw says of incorporating more actual singing into her talky, sprechgesang style. “Singing, I feel more vulnerable when I’m singing. For ...

Dry Cleaning’s third album, Secret Love, isn’t a reinvention so much as a sharpening of the blade. After the wiry post-punk punch of New Long Leg and the looser, dreamier drift of Stumpwork, this new ...

Dry Cleaning emerged in 2018 as the platonic ideal of the spoken-word post-punk bands that formed around Brixton's The Windmill. With talker and singer Florence Shaw’s absurdist imagery capturing ...

The rhythm throughout is a groovy plod, guitars wilfully relishing atonal skronk, coming on like a slow-funky, benzodiazepine-laced fusion of Squid, Bodega and The Fall. What defines their sound, ...

There’s nothing quite like pressing play on a new release from Dry Cleaning — or better yet, walking into one of their shows. On any given song, you might hear the English band skipping dexterously ...

On their highly anticipated third album, Secret Love, London post-punkers Dry Cleaning continue to expand their sonic palette. Produced by the estimable Cate Le Bon, the record is somewhat of a change ...