DRY CLEANING
LA COOPERATIVE DE MAI, Rue Serge-Gainsbourg, 63100 Clermont Ferrand Directions
Tue 17.11.2026 20:00
LA COOPERATIVE DE MAI PRESENTE : DRY CLEANING« Secret Love » est l’expression la plus aboutie à ce jour des profondes amitiés à l’origine de Dry Cleaning, entre la chanteuse Florence Shaw, le guitariste Tom Dowse, le batteur Nick Buxton et le bassiste Lewis Maynard. Ici, le quatuor sud-londonien s’affirme à la pointe de l’avant-garde rock. Il catalyse la paranoïa reaganienne du punk et du hardcore américain du début des années 80 avec l’assurance désinvolte de Keith Richards. S’y mêlent le stoner rock, la dégradation dystopique, un no wave espiègle et des arpèges pastoraux. La diction de Florence, minutieusement ajustée aux paysages sonores de ses camarades, l’inscrit dans la lignée des artistes de spoken word, de Laurie Anderson à Sue Tompkins de Life Without Buildings.
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Dry CleaningAs soon as Dry Cleaning finished their debut album New Long Leg – critically acclaimed across the board and number four in the UK album charts – they immediately set about moving fowards. Having already started writing their second record before their first was released, they proposed to producer John Parish that they spend twice as much time on the follow-up, Stumpwork.
Listen to the album and you can feel that increased boldness - vocals which coil tightly around deft and complex riffs, great meshes of instrumental texture and the willingness to launch into full-on abstraction. It is a heady mix that is entirely Dry Cleaning’s own, distinguishing from their contemporaries. “We felt more confident,” says guitarist Tom Dowse. “We could see the bigger picture and knew where to focus our energy more efficiently.”
Ultimately, what defines Dry Cleaning’s second album is the breadth of its scope. Their music is bolder and more expansive.