Does Dry Cleaning have a favorite American fast food chain? How about a favorite love song? Find out by watching our interview with the English band, and then listen to their new album ‘Secret Love,’ which is out now on @4AD_Official.
Dear pals, ‘Secret Love’ is finally available to share with you all this very day- in all its complete wholeness and in all the appropriate places, formats and materialisations!
We have a host of thank yous to some of the people that helped to make it: Cate Le Bon, Samur Khouja, David Wrench, Heba Kadry, Studio Blackbox, Erica Eyres, PG Howlin studios, and of course, our ever-faithful manager Timothy Hampson for guiding the ship!
COVER STORY: Dry Cleaning (@drycleaningband) on their third album and delivering indie music for the democracy 🎯
Built with the careful craftsmanship of four musicians harbouring a distinctly unique voice, while similarly working in unison, it is an unfiltered celebration of how the creation of bands are very much still desired, and that democracy is at the heart of music. “There is no leader, there’s no main creative force,” guitarist Tom Dowse proudly tells me about the band.
In what many would describe as a swathe of spoken word indie, Dry Cleaning have always stuck to their own guns, their own pace and crucially, their own style. Led by Florence Shaw, the band never tries to be anyone else and on Secret Love, that shines through stronger than it ever has. It’s what has allowed for a myriad of moods to be explored in a sonic whistle stop tour of sorts – the emotions may consistently vary, but the voice from within is consistent.
As we sit with them, on the eve of their album release in their local pub, The Ivy House in Peckham, sharing a pint and taking turns to dote over drummer Nick Buxton’s dog, a resolute sense of assurance prevails. This is a band basking in the knowledge that in the writing of their music, they’re doing something that is becoming increasingly difficult in the modern world: being truthful.
A band who have put democracy at the forefront of their creative process becoming a band as conscious of others as they are of themselves, and so prove to be the musical mirror we all need in 2026.
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From six-minute jams to new adventures in freak-folk, @drycleaningband carve deeper into their niche on album three, 'Secret Love'. Read the four-star NME review here: https://t.co/nFtIDSDA8j
“There’s a hypervigilance in these songs, a tension, an alertness to the threat of violence - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”
Post-punk seismographers @drycleaningband pick up more weird vibrations on spotless third album, Secret Love. Illustration by @coldwarsteve .
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Dear pals, our new single ‘Joy’ is out right now in all the usual places!
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Let’s hope 2026 has plenty of that to go around. On that note, Secret Love comes out in its entirety this very Friday so stay tuned for that!
Dear pals, we are pleased to share ‘Let Me Grow And You Will See The Fruit’ with you all! It features our dear friend, the Jewel of Illinois- @heshlamont in both the video and on the transcendent Saxophones in the track! We hope you enjoy it!
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To celebrate ‘Secret Love’ we will be doing a short series of ‘out-store’ shows, dates for which are below! Tickets for those shows will go on sale at 10am UK
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Greetings pals- We are much pleas’ed to share with you our new single ‘Cruise Ship Designer’, complete with accompanying dance spectacle featuring our very own Michael Flatley!
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Tickets for our North America, UK and EU tours go on general sale at 10am local time today pals! We look forward to seeing you there!
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