The London band drycleaningband brilliantly combine rocking and talking on their second album ‘Stumpwork.’ Our review.
Their most obvious touchpoints, though, are Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine who were blissing out on noise and wobbly whammy-bar guitar lines at a time when Dry Cleaning’s instrumentalists were still babies. The music is engaging and punchy, and if the group was all instrumental, like Mogwai or Pelican, it’d still attract a respectable following.
Shaw’s verses, culled from observational walks in London and Bristol, dart from subject to subject at a frenzied pace. She offers jokes, koans, polemics, and nonsense, all spoken or barely sung, with such variety that some listeners will be reaching for Ritalin. She often repeats phrases in unusual ways to catch your attention.
Other choice one-liners: “Don’t touch my gaming mouse, you rat” . “I’ve seen your arse but not your mouth” . And “I will risk slow death for Chinese spring roll” . But overall, it’s the lacunae and chaos of her poetry that makes her words so amusing without ever feeling grating. Her most cogent moment of wisdom — her “Everybody’s Free ” revelation — comes on the final track, “Icebergs,” when she suggests, “For a happy and exciting life … stay interested in the world around you/Keep the curiosity of a child if you can.” Then, apropos of nothing, the word “resuscitator.”
Shaw tries to sing here and there , but Dry Cleaning’s words and music seem to work best together when they’re working independently of each other. The band’s peers in the sing-speak/post-punk group Wet Leg do a better job overall of conjuring joy from the marriage of poetry and music but what Dry Cleaning do feels unique. They never try to tell full stories or beatify Shaw’s words .
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