Description
2022, 12″ LP, 4AD. White vinyl.
Dry Cleaning’s second album Stumpwork has already been met with rave reviews. It finds the band stand apart from their peers with a hard-to-categorise sound that goes way beyond their lazy post-punk assignation. The four-piece guitar gang with Florence Shaw up top veer from singing and speaking across everything from jangle pop to woozy ambient, stoner rock and spiky post-punk. The is a record defined by its juxtapositions with bass heavy funk offset by sax-powered rock on tunes like ‘Hot Penny Day’ and slower riffs on ‘Driver’s Story’ moving into shoegaze territory. Essential stuff. – Juno
