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- The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit - stripped-down sets, an intimate setting - just a different space.
Lars Gotrich | July 6, 2021
Up until now, Dry Cleaning's post-Brexit post-punk relied on a robust dynamism of jagged, thudding lushness and a speak-song voice. It's music that coos and quizzes at once. How energizing to hear Dry Cleaning recontextualize its established sound for a relatively subdued Tiny Desk performance from World of Echo, a record store in East London beloved to the British band.
Surrounded by tapes and vinyl - and framed by posters of Wipers and The Fall - the four members look cozy in the small space. Tom Dowse trades his effects pedals and electric guitar for an acoustic; its weird bends and weirder chords surprisingly complement the atmospheric keyboards and minimal beats of Nick Buxton, who's normally on drums. Lewis Maynard's bass doesn't throttle at this volume, but still grooves.
The bedroom-quiet arrangements of songs from its latest album, New Long Leg (plus "Viking Hair" from a previous EP), allows Florence Shaw's voice, an instrument of resolute deadpan, to bloom. Some might call her delivery wry, even disaffected - her lyrics non-sequitur - but here a sly inquisitiveness inclines a smile ("I'd like to run away with you on a plane, but don't bring those loafers") and burns a harsh memory ("Never talk about your ex / Never, never, never, never, never slag them off / Because then they know"). If Dry Cleaning's records are labyrinths of pulsing sound and droll poetry, think of this Tiny Desk (home) concert as the narrow path that lays bare the band's gnarled roots.
SET LIST
"Her Hippo"
"Unsmart Lady"
"Leafy"
"Viking Hair"
MUSICIANS
Florence Shaw: vocals
Tom Dowse: guitar
Lewis Maynard: bass
Nick Buxton: keys
CREDITS
Video: Tilly Shiner
Audio: Joshua Sinclair
Special thanks to Natalie Judge, Stephen Pietrzykowski & Johnny Healey
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Video Producer: Kara Frame
Audio Mastering: Andy Huether
Associate Producer: Bobby Carter
Tiny Production Team: Maia Stern, Josh Rogosin, Gabrielle Pierre
Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
#nprmusic #tinydesk #drycleaning
For someone who 'doesn't sing' her pitch and rhythm are perfect.
That's what signing is though right? It can be as unorthodox as it wants to be
It’d be cool if she made supermarket announcements.
And wrote fortune cookies.
Can you not?
Using only lyrics from these songs.
"Can every female thats currently bored and resorting to impulse buys of your favourite chocolate, please make their way to the French wine section."
That’s cool idea
Dry Cleaning is up to big things, the UK post punk scene is crazy right now!
Why don't you want oven chips now?
That's just child talk.
it's a Tokyo bouncy ball
Thanks very much for the Twix
0:00 - *Her Hippo* (5:31)
6:17 - *Unsmart Lady*
9:32 - *Leafy*
12:01 - *Viking Hair*
[15:58 - Tiny Desk team]
this version of Her Hippo with the eerie synths in the background is so much better than the original!
As a massive fan of the original I fully agree!
Completely agree
I thought it could not get better but it did
This is the definitive version of Her Hippo for me now. The synth just works so well
Not better but still amazing
Dry Cleaning are The Smiths of now, same Wit, exceptional songwriting. Can’t name one bad song, no bigger compliment.
The Smiths were my absolute favorite back in the 80's and I see a lot of people making comparisons with them, but I see Dry Cleaning as more comparable to the Fall, Gang of Four with some Jesus Lizard bass & some Sonic Youth thrown in. They are crazy good though and about the only band I have really gotten excited about in literally 30 years.
@@3ld919 oh I can totally see sonic youth! She really is kinda similar to Kim Gordon
The poster on the wall says it all
@@nederlanditism1154 I totally agree! 100%
Idk the singer reminds me of Jim Morrison lol
This is the first time i heard this kind of music
And it's so good🙂
Check out black country new road next, it's great!
@@radiofloyd2359 Check out The Enablers and Slint if you enjoy this stuff!
Idles is the angry very of this.
@@OrthodoxRainbow Nah, they're more normal ish punk.
They're great, mind you, but they don't have the spoken word narrative appeal of these bands
You guys are a breath of fresh air. I embrace your storytelling and what seems to be improvisation. I am a believer in-' first thought best thought'
She used to suffer from depression and wrote her random musings to her scribbled drawings
On second thought, you're probably right.
killer band. you can always tell if a band is the real deal if they still sound great when they go acoustic or change volume level. wish we didn't lose the bass as much at a few points but really dug this!
Poet backed by a killer band. Note the Fall poster.
Wish they played Scratchcard Lanyard but it’s okay I’m rockin wit this
Waking up to this makes me afraid that NPR is harvesting my dreams
Chills down the spine for Viking Hair. Have listened lots to their debut LP but really nice to see them in person and semiacoustic.
Same! It changes the atmosphere of the songs, love it!
What? You actually choose to listen to this? This is the kind of thing people hear by mistake and never ,listen to it again.
I love this band in every format. This one is amazing. They are unique!
Am I the only person thinking that The Fall's poster there on the right hand side is very appropriate?
No
Don’t be clever.
Yesss 🖤 Dry Cleaning 🤝 World of Echo
what is world of echo??
@@liquidpebbles7475 World Of Echo is the shop they're playing in during this session. They talk a little about it around 5:37
LEAFY! I love this song, I sing it every day. I made it my mission to learn it recently and I just love it. Thanks Dry Cleaning, you are my new favourite band!
Same frisson I got when I first heard The Fall, Joy Division, Pixies, Swell Maps, Stereolab...
confounding yet alluring. Can't put a finger on why, but keep coming back
I don’t know why I dig this but I dig this..
I know what u mean. If you where to describe then to me. I'd not like it. But there's something very close to insanity about it. Are you a fan of peep show ?
I discovered them about 5 months ago. At first I thought it was whatever. Now they're my new faves. Go check these songs out plugged in. Amazing!
her hippo , strong contender for 'song of the year'. Absolutely brilliant!
i fought the style of this spoken vocals stuff... like when does she start singing? but.... then i started listening without thinking and i focused on what she was actually saying. it's like listening to a story lol idk how to describe it but it's refreshing. I can hear and feel the emotions now, almost like the lyrics are being highlighted as she says them.... idk.
youtube comment's sections are a strange place to be sometimes.
- my thoughts -
It's like a spoken word poem, check poetry out if you're into it
Usually when listening to them while driving I just switch off = Flo's voice is very soothing, I don't focus on lyrics. Magic.
My friend just turned me on to these guys and THIS version was my intro.
This is so sublime, I cannot even take it.
Gorgeous, free-form, arty freestyle, dark Saint Etienne, of course they’re on 4AD, they’ve restored my faith in bands and artists for 2022, te amo Manuel…..
Fun to hear a new take on songs from one of my faviorite new bands, but it would be a shame if this was the only Dry Cleaning songs you hear. Be sure to listen to the originals to fully appreciate the juxtaposition between the muted lyrics and thrashing instrumentals.
It’s my favourite post punk album of the year so far, maybe aoty in general
The bass player 👍👍
I feel like I just listened to a mid-life crisis... and I loved it!!
Whoa this is unexpected. I never heard this kinda musical style before.. hmmm..
Once in a while a band comes along that makes everyone else look like they joined the wrong queue. Fantastic.
Dry Cleaning will never forgive Nigel F. for giving the working class the opportunity to voice their dissent about Britain being placed under the control of the centralized bureaucracy of the eu. Hence Flo and Tom support political violence when it happens to the “enemies of the people”-aka the working class, and Nigel who was assaulted and they indeed celebrated that violence.
Yabba!!!!!
her vocal performance in this rendition of Her Hippo reminded me of Baxter Dury's album Nightchancers
Yeah man - Nightchancers is mega
I knew she was reminding me of someone! Love them both.
This is perfect! Please NPR invite Black Country New Road, Black Midi, Squid and Shame for a Tiny Desk concert!
Black midi would be very cool
Squid for sure
Nah
She's kinda like a female version of a young David Byrne
I love this performance! The 'full on' band versions as heard on their brilliant new album are superb, but in this setting and with this instrumentation, the songs take on yet another life. Dry Cleaning are the most exciting band out there right now for me x
Her voice reminds me Laurie Anderson .... similarly beautiful
Yeah there's a flavour of Laurie Anderson in there for sure and a bit of Nico... Also remind me somewhat of Jenny Hval's - 'Apocalypse, Girl'.
Love the vibe! Like Pet Shop Boys meets Depeche Mode in the middle of a desert and viewed through a mirage
nah not really
They've also been described as Sonic Youth meets Slint
Nick on keys instead of drums = magic. Top vibe. My fav band lately and surely discovery of the year.
I totally agree. this Viking Hair version = magic indeed
:)
Reminds me of Soul Coughing a bit
Release this on Bandcamp please
🫶🏼🫶🏼
Love this band. “Good Luck, Band”
Love these guys. What is the name of the record store again? Love the Wipers and Fall framed prints on the walls 🖤
World of Echo
Has anyone seen a water caterpillar?
unsmart lady goes way too hard here
Wow, her hippo 👌🏾
I feel like I’m in a continuation of Coney Island Baby…. It’s freaking magical ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Vinyl release on this one. Beg🎉
special you know
I love what Dry Cleaning does when they're fully plugged, but this really shows them in a wonderfully different way. And this is just a great way to get a clear sense of just how interesting the interplay between Florence Shaw's words and the musical layers is. Amazing set. And Viking Hair, which is really one of the "songs" that defines the group for me is brought to new kinds of hallucinatory clarity here.
I want a version of the album done in this stripped back style. What a treat.
This is so wierd. I love it😄
This is lovely.
Best band of 2021
Malmö was Magic
cool to hear it acoustic, but these songs are definitely made for electric
definitely agreed
While coolio with the acoustic, defo needs the pedals and feedback ( and that cracking tight bass and drum work)
Made for, yes, but this is a neat alternate version, can see people digging more with this style
Do something this cool then with one
MD441 ! Yes !
Fancy the pants off the laconic one….nice little view of Mark E Smith every now and then, handsome sod. Decent debut album chaps!
I became a bit emotional listening to these “stripped synth versions”…! I can’t properly explain why.
Marvellous..!
cool nails!
YAYYYYY I LOVE DRY CLEANING
Don't cry, just drive
How do you watch Tiny Desk and dislike anything? It's like a musical empathy engine.
Loving her delivery and their whole vibe!
tiny desk home concert should be released on vinyl EP goosebumps
Points for the MD 441.
Nico, Anne Clark and now Ms. Florence Shaw. The new trinity of women chanting. I love all three. Amazing what facets this music still gives us.
you are forgetting Laury Anderson
*Laurie
Beautiful
Been listening to them on repeat for weeks. Love this band.
I gotta see this band live. Had their album on repeat for a while. I couldn't have thought they would be this great live.
They supported Amyl & The Sniffers when I saw them at Heaven. It was brilliant!
HERRRRR HIPPOOOOOOO💤💤
BOTTE DA O!!!
She got me at "the last thing I looked at in this hand mirror was a human arsehole" .... nice.
The fall poster is fitting
what an unexpected treat! love this band so much, great fun to see a different spin on these songs
I’m in love with the bands excellence. But I’m especially in love with, yeah, Florence. But she’ll never be part of my personal life. So sad.
So great to hear original art in this tired old game.
Great!!
I'm not just saying this because I have to, I can back it up with facts and relevant information.
Not sure why but I'd love to hear these guys cover "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please" by Splodgenessabounds
Love this version of Leafy so much.
The singer's voice reminds me of Laura Marling (my favourite artist since > a decade), but a very unique style. I kinda like this. Good thing these people found each other and turned that strange vibe into music.
Reminds me of Baxter dury in her style of talking/singing.
@@Sweenah94 yes!! so glad someone else made that connection.
Come to Sweden again, the twix sit happened here. We love you all!!! Dry Cleaning
What's fascinating to me is the choice of that particular microphone. Would if feel different with one with another shape?
Love them; so glad to see them here
I'm in love ...❤️🇬🇧
what a wonderful thing to see them on tiny desk (finally)!! oh how lovely it is to hear these songs with an acoustic guitar, a different type of sound but still angry scrappy songs
simple pimple
stomach stab
Leafy made me emotional. The album helped get me through lockdowns and stuff. To hear it broken down like that was powerful x
GOOD LUCK, BANNND
Entendu sur une radio rock locale, j aime beaucoup la voix de Florence et la rythmique des chansons. Ce groupe mérite une plus grande diffusion.😉
This man on the guitar is my model haha what a beast
Thanks! Great!
This rendition of leafy is amazing, really looking forward to more from this band :)
Yesssss I'm so happy they did this. I love their sound.
Best band around right now.
i love how much i loved this
wow!
Any one here single and living in the midlands who wants to hook up?
It feels like they are trying to represent the voice in my head that I try to silence down cus it causes me anxiety, and maybe making me realise that is my concience, why am I trying to silence down my concience?
I'm a devious snake and I keep it in my wigloo. HA, love that line!
Florence shaw