Dry Cleaning made one of 2021 s singular rock albums © Provided by Entertainment Weekly Steve Gullick Dry Cleaning s New Long Leg blends of-the-moment lyrics with razor-wire riffing
New Long Leg, the debut full-length by Dry Cleaning, opens with a jolt: insistent, slightly distorted synth drums, countered by a bludgeoning bassline. Then a voice, extremely British and extremely over it, comes in, sighing: Many years have passed and you re still… charming. The song, Scratchcard Lanyard, is a dizzying introduction to the Dry Cleaning aesthetic, with music that s harsh yet undeniably catchy while its narrator is drolly amused by a world where one can do everything and feel nothing.
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The easy thing to do with Dry Cleaning is to concentrate on Florence Shaw and her laconic, subdued, spoken delivery of lyrics that are almost surreal in their quotidian blankness. But that does a disservice to the other three members of the band, because New Long Leg is the work of a terrifically focused group, whose version of post-punk is far more varied than it might at first appear. Tom Dowse has a knack for insinuating guitar lines – the cascading riff of Unsmart Lady; the simple pattern that underpins Strong Feelings – and sometimes the hooks come from the basslines of Lewis Maynard. There’s not a revolution here: the rulebook of the four-piece indie band is not being rewritten, but even with a conventional singer, singing conventional lyrics, Dry Cleaning would be a superior example of the kind.