Additional InformationThe band's surreally witty, poignant debut album brings fresh energy to post-punk with its combination of deadpan vocals and fired-up playing.
Reviews"Dry Cleaning are a great guitar band with a lead vocalist who carefully speaks her acerbically droll, often very funny lyrics, creating a sound that feels at once intimate and ominous...", "Dry Cleaning's music is counterbalanced by vocalist and lyricist Florence Shaw, whose pursed-lip, spoken delivery gives an added sense of surreality to her elliptical lyrics.", "‘John Wick’ is a dry, intense, implausibly dark performance, while ‘More Big Birds’ and ‘ALC’ demonstrate Dry Cleaning’s intricate full band methodologies.", Included in Rolling Stone's "The 50 Best Albums of 2021" -- "10 smartly textured tracks produced by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. It’s music that both demands and deserves undivided attention.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "The quartet’s debut album sees them wade further into lyrical surrealism and musical experimentation.", "A sleek, sculptural debut. For 40-plus minutes, Florence Shaw talk-sings of creature comforts and extravagances...", "Their stylishly alchemic art-rock juxtaposes nervy instrumentation from guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard with vocalist Florence Shaw’s hypnotic spoken-word delivery...", "A droll album full of surreal images, bizarre obsessions, and sense memories. The cumulative effect of Florence Shaw’s narration is inexplicably wonderful.", "Singer Florence Shaw’s poetic narratives vacillate between funny and cynical -- the consistent eye of the hurricane in these melodic and moody tracks.", "Shaw's poetic musings are as jagged and piercing as the band's coarse riffs, and as queasy as its murmuring bass grooves."