With New Long Leg, Dry Cleaning lead the renaissance of British ‘monologue rock’ 4/5 The arty Brighton quartet’s debut album is an engrossingly energetic fusion of the mundane, the surreal and the downright bizarre New Long Leg is the debut album by the Brighton quartet Dry Cleaning Credit: Pooneh Ghana “I just want to put something positive in the world but it’s hard because I’m so full of poisonous rage,” drawls Florence Shaw in tones of exquisite boredom. While her band, Dry Cleaning, stir up a furious squall of post-punk energy on their debut album New Long Leg, their frontwoman, a former art-school lecturer, maintains an indifference to melody or emotion unmatched since Grace Jones’s 1980s pomp.