Few bands make you lean in quite like Dry Cleaning. The south London four-piece have spent the better part of a decade carving out a sound entirely their own - frontperson Florence Shaw's coolly detached spoken-word poetry winding through a musical backdrop that draws on early 80s American hardcore, no wave, stoner rock and pastoral fingerpicking, all without ever settling into something you can easily name. In a lineage that runs from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings, Shaw is simply one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music.

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Their third album Secret Love - released January 2026 on 4AD and produced by Cate Le Bon at a studio in the Loire Valley - is being hailed as the finest thing they've made. A MOJO five-star Album of the Month, Record Collector's Album of the Month, and Uncut's declaration that they are "the most important British guitar band of their generation." It's a record shaped across continents, from Jeff Tweedy's Chicago studio to Sonic Studios Dublin, and it shows - tight, generous, deeply human, and somehow both restless and warm.

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Dry Cleaning play The Princess Theatre for Open Season. This is the kind of show you'll be telling people about.