Dry Cleaning are again with one other new album. The London-based post-punk band will launch Secret Love, their upcoming third LP, on January 9 by way of 4AD. They’re ringing in that information right now by sharing the lead single “Hit My Head All Day,” which you’ll take heed to under.
“The tune is about manipulation of the physique and thoughts,” explains singer Florence Shaw. “The lyrics had been initially impressed by way of misinformation on social media by the far proper. There are highly effective people who search to affect our habits for their very own acquire; to purchase sure issues, to vote a sure means. I discover it onerous to learn individuals’s intentions and resolve who to belief, even in on a regular basis life. It’s straightforward to fall underneath the affect of a sinister stranger who looks as if a buddy.”
Secret Love is Dry Cleansing’s third studio album, following 2023’s Stumpwork. The four-piece fleshed out the 11-track album over a sequence of classes all over the world, starting with a cease at Jeff Tweedy’s Chicago studio The Loft, and louder takes with Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox at Dublin’s Sonic Studios. Ultimately, Dry Cleansing tapped Cate Le Bon to supply the album, heading out to France’s distant Black Field to report with the experimental indie rock determine.
Dry Cleansing nonetheless have a handful of upcoming concert events on their docket as a part of their ongoing 2025 tour. After a headlining set at Brooklyn’s Warsaw on October 2, the band will carry out in Madrid, Barcelona, Brighton, London, and extra European cities.
Revisit the Rising interview “Dry Cleaning’s Everyday Surrealism” and examine their debut New Long Leg at No. 50 in “The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far.”
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Secret Love:
01 Hit My Head All Day
02 Cruise Ship Designer
03 My Soul / Half Pint
04 Secret Love (Hid in a Drawing of a Boy)
05 Let Me Develop and You’ll See the Fruit
06 Blood
07 Evil Evil Fool
08 Rocks
09 The Cute Issues
10 I Want You
11 Pleasure
