“South London post-punk quartet built around Florence Shaw's deadpan spoken word and Tom Dowse's angular, melodic guitar — art-school detachment over restless rhythm sections on 4AD.”
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Curatorial notes
Dry Cleaning formed in South London in 2018 when three friends — guitarist Tom Dowse, bassist Lewis Maynard, and drummer Nick Buxton — invited their former university classmate Florence Shaw, a visual artist and lecturer who had never sung before, to try fronting the band. She didn't sing. Instead, she read. Her deadpan monologues — fragments of overheard speech, internet detritus, advertising...
