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Dry Cleaning

UK band traversing from 80’s punk to no waveThe latest album by Dry Cleaning in 2026!Dry Cleaning, a band in the Spoken Word lineage consisting of Florence Shaw (vo), Tom Dowds (g), Nick Buxton (ds), and Lewis Maynard (b), has released their third album “Secret Love” on the 4AD label.Produced by Kate Le Bon, who also produced the Horsegirls’ album “Phonetics On and On,” the album also features Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox of the Gila Band.With “Secret Love,” a work of expression of dry cleaning born of a deep friendship between the members, the band has placed itself in the avant-garde of rock, using the paranoid air of the Reagan era, reflected by the American punk and hardcore of the early 80s, as a catalyst, and Keith Richards The band blends austere, dry guitar riffs reminiscent of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian decadence, playful no-wave, and pastoral fingerpicking. Florence’s recitative vocals, in close