Dry Cleaning

Dry Cleaning's 'New Long Leg' blends of-the-moment lyrics with razor-wire riffing

| Credit: Steve Gullick

New Long Leg, the debut full-length by Dry Cleaning, opens with a jolt: insistent, slightly distorted synth drums, countered by a bludgeoning bassline. Then a voice, extremely British and extremely over it, comes in, sighing: "Many years have passed and you're still… charming." The song, "Scratchcard Lanyard," is a dizzying introduction to the Dry Cleaning aesthetic, with music that's harsh yet undeniably catchy while its narrator is drolly amused by a world where one can "do everything and feel nothing."