"Dry Cleaning's third album features a lot of strikingly odd lyrics. Take your pick from alien offshoot mushroom, going the gym to get slim; my dream house is a negative space of rock; or, indeed, when I was a child I wanted to be a horse, eating onions, carrots, celery. But it's an ostensibly more straightforward line, from Cruise Ship Designer, that seems destined to attract the most attention."
"I make sure there are hidden messages in my work, says vocalist Florence Shaw as the track draws to a conclusion, the muscular guitar riff that's driven it along devolving into a janky, trebly scrabble. The artwork for Secret Love. Photograph: Patrick Jameson Initially, the lyric appears to characterise what Dry Cleaning do, and Shaw in particular. From the moment they first appeared with the 2018 EP Sweet Princess, the south London quartet have attracted adjectives such as surreal, enigmatic and inscrutable."
Dry Cleaning's third album features strikingly odd, surreal lyrics that mix everyday observations, non sequiturs, and bizarre images. Examples include 'alien offshoot mushroom', 'my dream house is a negative space of rock', and childhood desire 'to be a horse, eating onions, carrots, celery'. On 'Cruise Ship Designer' Florence Shaw says, 'I make sure there are hidden messages in my work' as a muscular guitar riff devolves into a trebly scrabble. The band emerged with the 2018 EP Sweet Princess and gained a reputation as mysterious and inscrutable. Shaw's vocals deliver collages of overheard remarks, recycled YouTube comments, adverts and non sequiturs in a politely bored, anhedonic tone.
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