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Dry Cleaning
New Long Leg
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 Legon 4AD. The 10-track long-player, which includes ‘Strong Feelings’ and last year’s single ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’, 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’s spoken vocals tightly intertwined with the band’s 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, “the title is ambiguous; a new long leg could be an expensive present or a growth or a table repair.”
A1
Scratchcard Lanyard
A2
Unsmart Lady
A3
Strong Feelings
A4
Leafy
A5
Her Hippo
B1
New Long Leg
B2
John Wick
B3
More Big Birds
B4
A.L.C.
B5
Every Day Carry