Earlier this year, Dry Cleaning, “the most important British guitar band of their generation,” (Uncut) released their new album, Secret Love via 4AD. The beloved band of frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard’s third album earned them glowing praise from fans and critics alike, including NPR Music, Wall Street Journal, Pitchfork, Paste, Rolling Stone, and more, with the latter hailing the album as “the best Dry Cleaning album yet, full of intriguing left turns and surprising new swerves.”
Ahead of the band’s extensive North American tour kicking off next month, they release the new single, “Sliced by a Fingernail” accompanied by a visualizer by BULLYACHE. With a backdrop of the band’s rich soundscape of early 80s US punk and hardcore coupled with stoner rock and motorik grooves, Shaw provides abstract lyrics partly about someone who hates attention.
