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Dry Cleaning
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Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg | Reviews
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Album of the week: New Long Leg — Triple R 102 7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
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The everyday becomes poetic on this intensely original album of post-punk shape-shifting from the south London foursome
Lewis Maynard, Nick Buxton, Florence Shaw, Tom Dowse of Dry Cleaning. Photograph: Steve Gullick
Lewis Maynard, Nick Buxton, Florence Shaw, Tom Dowse of Dry Cleaning. Photograph: Steve Gullick
Sun 4 Apr 2021 08.00 EDT
At a time when such key cultural theorists as the bloke from Maroon 5 are asking whether the very idea of bands has a future, the debut album from south London four-piece Dry Cleaning seems timely.
In front of inventive, ever-shifting, never-repeating post-punk shapes â courtesy of Nick Buxton (drums), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Tom Dowse (guitar) â Florence Shaw intones richly detailed lyrical fragments of everyday observations in a voice thatâs more sprech than gesang. Taken in isolation, non sequitur lines such as âSomeone pissed on my leg in the big Sainsburyâs/ If youâre an Aries/ Then Iâm an Ariesâ
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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.