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Nancy Collinge
, April 1st, 2021 08:20
The debut album by Dry Cleaning is as oblique and unsettling as Hans Holbein s skull, finds Nancy Collinge
Photo by Steve Gullick
A couple of months ago during a bout of lockdown malaise, I was in my mum’s living room eating pie and chips and peas in front of the telly. The
Flog It credits rolled and shortly afterwards, an unremarkable looking middle-aged contestant on
Pointless professed his undying love for a South London band called Dry Cleaning. “Bravo sir” my internal monologue drawled, “The reincarnated John Peel is among us… I hope they do a question on flags today.”
With New Long Leg, Dry Cleaning lead the renaissance of British ‘monologue rock’
4/5
The arty Brighton quartet’s debut album is an engrossingly energetic fusion of the mundane, the surreal and the downright bizarre
New Long Leg is the debut album by the Brighton quartet Dry Cleaning
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“I just want to put something positive in the world but it’s hard because I’m so full of poisonous rage,” drawls Florence Shaw in tones of exquisite boredom. While her band, Dry Cleaning, stir up a furious squall of post-punk energy on their debut album New Long Leg, their frontwoman, a former art-school lecturer, maintains an indifference to melody or emotion unmatched since Grace Jones’s 1980s pomp.
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