Dry Cleaning’ TV Debut on Later… with Jools Holland
Dry Cleaning
Make Their Television Debut On 2 April 2021
Watch Them Play ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ From Their Debut Album New Long Leg Out 2 April 2021
This past Friday, London-based band Dry Cleaning made their television debut on Later…with Jools Holland with a performance of ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’, the opening song from their forthcoming debut album New Long Leg, out 2April. Filmed in London’s Moth Club, ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ – which led to their most recent single ‘Strong Feelings’ – is a treatise on the joy of life’s little pleasures, where air fresheners become mighty oaks and Instagram filters are glamourous holiday destinations.
Watch Dry Cleaning Make Their Television Debut on Later…with Jools Holland HERE or via the player below.
‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ – Dry Cleaning
Live on Later… with Jools Holland
Dry Cleaning is Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Florence Shaw (vocals).
Buoyed by the universal acclaim they received for 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess, the foursome spent more and more of their lives on tour, refining their craft even further. The intensive time they spent together meant they developed a near-psychic knowledge of how to leave the right amount of space for each other in their songs.
The resulting New Long Leg, produced by John Parish, is more ambitious and complex, with Shaw’s spoken vocals tightly intertwined with the band’s restless instrumentals. Its lyrics are preoccupied by themes like dissociation, escapism, daydreaming, complicated feelings of love, anger, revenge, anxiety, the kitchen, lethargy, forgetfulness, and survival. Shaw extracts the most immense meaning from the most trivial things; she peppers the songs with a thousand tiny details, little witty asides about supermarkets, cupboards, beauty products and body parts add up to sonic landscapes that teem with the strange magic of ordinary life.
Praise for Dry Cleaning:
“One of the most exciting guitar bands of recent times.”
– The Wire
“Cerebral, caustic, exhilarating debut.”
– MOJO ****
“Peerless peddlers of post-punk spoken-word ennui deliver another mini-masterpiece.”
– The Sunday Times on ‘Strong Feelings’
“Florence Shaw evokes Jarvis Cocker at his most sardonic.”
– The Guardian on ‘Strong Feelings’
“[Dry Cleaning] grafts post-punk grooves onto semi-absurdist poetry in a way that’s a little reminiscent of the great Scottish band Life Without Buildings, but Shaw’s vocals are uniquely, and a little menacingly, deadpan.”
– The New York Times
“[‘Strong Feelings’ is] a bundle of contradictions, wringing pathos out of detachment, narrative out of non sequiturs.”
– Pitchfork
“[‘Scratchard Lanyard’] has all the strange allure of their 2019 output, plus a little extra verve and polish courtesy of PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish.”
– Rolling Stone
“”Dry Cleaning infuse post-punk with psychedelia on their new single ‘Strong Feelings.’ The track is tied together by lead vocalist Florence Cleopatra Shaw — her lyrics are a quiet tempest of passing thoughts that are pointless and profound, often at the same time.”
– The FADER
“’Scratchcard Lanyard’ is a jumble of wordplay and wired tension. Bandleader Florence Shaw sounds disaffected and scattered, singing of bouncy balls and knitting circles and women in aviators firing bazookas, as she lands on one central refrain: ‘Do everything and feel nothing.’”
– Stereogum
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
Featuring the singles ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ and ‘Strong Feelings’, New Long Leg will be released on 2 April digitally and on CD, cassette, standard black vinyl and limited-edition yellow vinyl. The first 150 customers to pre-order New Long Leg from the 4AD Store will receive a 12”x12” print signed by the band, whilst selected indie retailers are offering a 7” vinyl of ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ (b/w non-album track ‘Bug Eggs’) with pre-orders. For more information, head to drycleaning.ffm.to/newlongleg.opr.
Dry Cleaning by Steve Gullick
[L-R: Lewis Maynard, Nick Buxton, Florence Shaw, Tom Dowse]
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