DRY CLEANING
Rock School Barbey, 18, cours Barbey, 33800 Bordeaux Directions
Sun 15.11.2026 18:00
Dry CleaningChez Dry Cleaning, les guitares tracent des lignes obliques pendant que Florence Shaw, voix lead aussi charismatique que nonchalante, déroule son flux de pensées avec un spoken-word au flegme déconcertant. Depuis le sud de Londres, épicentre du renouveau post-punk britannique, le groupe transforme les détails les plus anodins en récits troubles, drôles et parfois bouleversants.Longtemps maîtres de la distance, les quatre Britanniques ont laissé entrer davantage de lumière dans leur dernier Secret Love (2026), un disque produit par Cate Le Bon où l'étrangeté familière de leur univers se teinte de tendresse et d'émotion. Une musique qui regarde le monde de biais, suffisamment loin pour en percevoir l'absurdité, suffisamment près pour en saisir toute la vulnérabilité.
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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.