One of the standout albums of 2021. It’s everything you expected and more. Simply amazing. Dry Cleaning release their debut studio album New Long Leg on 4AD. The 10-track long-player, which includes \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStrong Feelings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s single \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcScratchcard Lanyard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, was recorded over two weeks last summer at Rockfield Studios in rural Wales with producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding). Following on from their thrillingly taut 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess, New Long Leg is more ambitious and complex, with Shaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spoken vocals tightly intertwined with the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s restless instrumentals. With lyrics preoccupied by themes like dissociation, escapism, daydreaming, complicated feelings of love, anger, revenge, anxiety, the kitchen, lethargy, forgetfulness, and survival, Shaw says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the title is ambiguous; a new long leg could be an expensive present or a growth or a table repair.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dry Cleaning was formed by friends Tom Dowse, Nick Buxton and Lewis Maynard after a karaoke party in 2017 inspired a collaboration. They wrote instrumentally to begin with until six months later Florence Shaw, a visual artist, university lecturer and picture researcher by day \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with no prior musical experience \u00e2\u20ac\u201c turned up to a band rehearsal armed with reams of her own collected writing and a copy of Michael Bernard Loggins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Fears Of Your Life to read out over the music. Before long she was the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s frontperson, contributing words of her own, and serving as the perfect foil to the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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