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Gathering inspiration from Maltese folk and ’70s psych-rock, the UK-based band makes complex, ambitious post-punk with the chaotic energy of an informal jam. ....
Dry Cleaning Spit Back the Unending Noise of the World on New Long Leg Published Apr 01, 2021 9 Florence Shaw writes a song like a bowerbird builds a nest, with an obsessive fixation for colourful garbage. On Dry Cleaning s debut full-length, New Long Leg, Shaw weaves new language from journal pages and YouTube comments, advertisements, headlines, haircuts and spoiled food, turning ordinary detritus into something fantastical and useful. Bolstered by lush production from John Parish, Tom Dowse s riffs take on a new depth and Lewis Maynard and Nick Buxton s kinetic rhythms are accented with shakers, drum machines and handclaps. New Long Leg is a bristling and steely-eyed statement of intent, introducing Shaw as an anthropologist of the everyday, or, as she deadpans on the sinewy Strong Feelings : Just an emo dead stuff collector / Things come to the brain. ....
Fergal Kinney , March 1st, 2021 09:31 On the 20th anniversary of their one and only studio album, Any Other City, Fergal Kinney speaks to Life Without Buildings about their short productive life and their incredibly long tail In pop music, and the cottage industry set up to auto-mythologise it, there’s little premium higher than the small coterie of bands whose skimpy discographies are inverse to their XXL influence – Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Slint, Television. You’ll notice that all of the above are indie or alternative acts. Unless from early death, you’ll find little of this mythologising in soul or in jazz. What can we learn from this? The early split being the logical end point of indie s cult of detachment? ....