Dry Cleaning Vinyl Records
Combining Florence Shaw's detached spoken word vocals with intense post-punk instrumentation, Dry Cleaning's music contrasts the surreal and the mundane. The South London band introduced their taut, swaggering sound with EPs such as 2019's Meghan Markle-referencing Sweet Princess, then took a more expansive approach on 2021's debut album New Long Leg. Dry Cleaning formed in 2017 when guitarist Tom Dowse, bassist Lewis Maynard, and drummer Nick Buxton got together to play instrumental post-punk inspired by the likes of the Feelies, the Clean, and the B-52's. By 2018, Shaw (also a visual artist and university lecturer) had joined and added her deadpan vocal stylings to the mix. The group made their recorded debut with July 2019's single "Magic of Meghan," a song combining Shaw's feelings about a recent breakup and Meghan Markle.