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Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (CD)

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Florence Shaw's deadpan spoken-word delivery has always been the kind of thing that stops a room, and on *Secret Love* the whole band sounds locked in around her in ways their previous records only hinted at. Dry Cleaning's trajectory from south London art-punk upstarts to 4AD mainstays mirrors the label's own history of nurturing the genuinely strange until it becomes essential.

Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning. Here, the south London four-piece take their place in rock's avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence's delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates' soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings' Sue Tompkins.

Tracklist
1. Hit My Head All Day (6:04)
2. Cruise Ship Designer (2:30)
3. My Soul / Half Pint (3:58)
4. Secret Love (Concealed In A Drawing Of A Boy) (3:22)
5. Let Me Grow And You'll See The Fruit (3:10)
6. Blood (3:24)
7. Evil Evil Idiot (3:59)
8. Rocks (3:00)
9. The Cute Things (4:16)
10. I Need You (4:33)
11. Joy (2:57)

UPC: 191400086821
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 1.9.26
Format: CD