Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (CD)
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Florence Shaw's deadpan spoken-word delivery sits at the center of Dry Cleaning's sound like overheard fragments of inner monologue set against post-punk guitar work that owes something to Wire and the Fall without sounding like either. Rockfield Studios, where Queen and Oasis once tracked, gave the band room to stretch, and Parish's production keeps the tension coiled tight throughout.
Dry Cleaning - the South London group of Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Florence Shaw (vocals) - release their debut album New Long Leg on 4AD. The 10-track long-player, which includes "Strong Feelings" and "Scratchcard Lanyard," was recorded over two weeks last summer 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 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."
Tracklist
UPC: 191400025424
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 4.2.21
Format: CD