Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning, between frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard. Here, the south London four-piece take their place in rock’s avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence’s delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates’ soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins.

A1. Hit My Head All Day
A2. Cruise Ship Designer
A3. My Soul / Half Pint
A4. Secret Love (Concealed In A Drawing Of A Boy)
A5. Let Me Grow And You'll See The Fruit
B1. Blood
B2. Evil Evil Idiot
B3. Rocks
B4. The Cute Things
B5. I Need You
B6. Joy