London-based art rock band Dry Cleaning

Youtube Channel KEXP, a very high-quality music station with a large number of live performance short films, is the main source for me to discover new songs in recent years.

The biggest discovery recently is the art rock band Dry Cleaning (Dry Cleaning?). The name reflects their character, which is the trivial things in daily life. Their self-introduction is also very concise. "Dry Cleaning are a 4-piece from South London ".

Founded in 2017, they signed with the famous 4AD record label at the end of last year, and they just released their debut album "New Long Leg", which was a huge hit, and is currently No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart*.

The most eye-catching should be the vocals of Florence Shaw. When Qu performed, he was expressionless, his eyes were blank, and he sang coldly. The lyrics have no obvious story, they seem to be collage, the trivial things in life are like the filter of ig, like chatting with friends or overhearing the conversation of passers-by, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, in fact, many do not understand its meaning, but read it Still very attractive.

Some of them are paintings, such as "In the painting's foreground, at the bottom is a famous anamorphic" in Strong Feelings
Which when viewed sidelong is revealed to be a human skull", of "The French Ambassador to the English Court," the famously twisted-angle skull.

Florence was a visual artist before she became the lead vocalist of the band. Finding her paintings online also has the same weird taste in the song.

Because I am so addicted to them these days, I have watched the live of KEXP more than ten times, and I want to draw what I like. I am quite satisfied with the drawing this time :)

*The article was written in April 2021