November 19, 2020

For Immediate Release

DRY CLEANING MAKE 4AD DEBUT WITH NEW

SINGLE/VIDEO, “SCRATCHCARD LANYARD” ​ ​

Photo Credit: Pooneh Ghana

“By treating language as a machine to be taken apart, Dry Cleaning crystallize

experience with just a few images and turns of phrase. It’s enough to make you sift

through the minutiae of your own life in search of meanings you’ve overlooked."

- ​

London-based band Dry Cleaning make their 4AD debut with a new single, ​ ​ ​ ​ “Scratchcard Lanyard,” and an accompanying video. The band first played the track ​ ​ on their KEXP session earlier this year, where they were the last act to record in the ​ ​ actual studios pre-COVID shutdown. “Scratchcard Lanyard” is a treatise on the joy of life’s little pleasures, where air fresheners become mighty oaks and Instagram filters are glamorous holiday destinations. In its companion video, the directorial debut of artist duo Rottingdean Bazaar (James Theseus Buck and Luke Brooks), the concept ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ and set design riffs on the song’s celebration of the humdrum, inserting vocalist

Florence Shaw into her own miniature night club. ​

Dry Cleaning further explain: “In the search for your true calling in life, it’s easy to try so many things that you end up confused. It can lead to an enormous build-up of frustration. You may fantasise about exacting revenge upon your real or imagined enemies. Ephemeral things and small-scale escapist experiences can provide some relief!”

Watch Dry Cleaning’s Video for “Scratchcard Lanyard”

Watch Dry Cleaning’s KEXP session

Dry Cleaning is Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Florence Shaw (vocals). Firm friends for years, they only started making music after a ​ karaoke party in 2017 inspired a collaboration. They wrote instrumentally to begin with and six months later Shaw, a university lecturer and picture researcher by day, joined on vocals with no prior musical experience.

Dry Cleaning’s music is simple - direct and uncomplicated. The Feelies, the ​ Necessaries, the B52s and Pylon all served as inspirations when the band first came ​ together. The small and intimate garage / rehearsal space had a huge influence on the sound; both of last year’s EPs “Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks” and “Sweet ​ ​ ​ Princess,” were written here. The quartet have finished work on their debut album, ​ with details to follow soon.

Praise for Dry Cleaning

“Like empty bottles melted down and repurposed as stained glass, Dry Cleaning’s assembled observations capture the distortion of life on and off the internet, of spewing

our deepest emotions into an anonymous void but biting our tongue when we

encounter a real person.” - Pitchfork ​

“Broadcast's monotonic mood, Life Without Buildings' jagged guitar and Pylon's

mutant post-punk groove all in one place” - NPR ​

“As a whole, Dry Cleaning consistently show an ability to glean significant thought and feeling out of things so seemingly uninspiring across their thoroughly exciting musical

output thus far.” - ​

“Dry Cleaning—emphasis on ‘dry’—use bleak humor and acid sarcasm as a way to cut

life’s thousand tiny indignities down to size. You have to be a sharp writer to make this

kind of withering wit work, but fortunately, Shaw is one of the sharpest.” - Bandcamp ​

Dry Cleaning Online: https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drycleaningband/ https://www.facebook.com/drycleaningband/ https://pitchperfectpr.com/dry-cleaning/

For more information, contact: Jacob Daneman | Pitch Perfect PR - [email protected], 773-271-6844 ​

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