Name: New Long Leg
Brand: Dry Cleaning

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Bonus disc: No

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4AD0254LP

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Black

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Discogs ID

[r18081079]

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

191400025417

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

4AD0254CD

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191400025424

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dry Cleaning

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

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Dry Cleaning is an English post-punk band that originated in South London in 2018. The band consists of Florence Cleopatra Shaw on vocals, Thomas Paul Dowse on guitar, Nicholas Hugh Andrew Buxton on drums, and Lewis Maynard on bass.
With their unique sound and captivating performances, Dry Cleaning has quickly gained recognition in the music industry. Their blend of post-punk influences creates a distinct and powerful musical experience for listeners.
Formed by a group of talented musicians, Dry Cleaning's music is characterized by Shaw's mesmerizing vocals accompanied by Dowse's intricate guitar melodies. Buxton's dynamic drumming and Maynard's rhythmic bass lines complete the band's signature sound.

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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 Leg on 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.”

Dry Cleaning was formed by friends Tom Dowse, Nick Buxton and Lewis Maynard after a karaoke party in 2017 inspired a collaboration. They wrote instrumentally to begin with until six months later Florence Shaw, a visual artist, university lecturer and picture researcher by day – with no prior musical experience – turned up to a band rehearsal armed with reams of her own collected writing and a copy of Michael Bernard Loggins’ Fears Of Your Life to read out over the music. Before long she was the group’s frontperson, contributing words of her own, and serving as the perfect foil to the band’s music.

New Long Leg

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Discover New Long Leg by Dry Cleaning on 4AD. Available in LP, CD, Tape formats. Limited edition and Rough Trade exclusive options. Standout album of 2021.