Dry Cleaning Secret Love - Gatefold CD Edition - Sealed UK CD album

DRY CLEANING Secret Love (Gatefold CD Edition 2026 UK/EU 11-track CD album. Secret Love is Dry Cleaning's third studio album and their most cohesive statement to date, produced by Cate Le Bon. Written collectively and shaped through sessions in London, Chicago, Dublin and the Loire Valley, the record refines the band's interplay between taut, exploratory guitar work and Florence Shaw's precise spoken-word delivery. Themes of trust, influence and uncertainty run throughout, with opening track Hit My Head All Day setting the tone. Gatefold picture sleeve with title sticker, factory sealed. Recommended)

TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
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.

The follow-up to Stumpwork started life in Peckham rehearsal spaces, all four members writing, playing and responding to each other in the room: in Dry Cleaning, music and lyrics form an inseparable, generative whole. Secret Love evolved through affirming sessions at Jeff Tweedy's Chicago studio the Loft and explosive ones with Gilla Band's Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox at Sonic Studios in Dublin, taking advantage of the sonic particulars of each space, and finally with Cate Le Bon at Black Box in the Loire Valley. After interviewing various potential producers, they picked Cate - an esteemed solo artist who has also made albums for Deerhunter, Devendra Banhart, Wilco and Horsegirl - for her unabashed positivity and openness. “Being in a room with them and hearing that vitality and life force that exists between them all, it's such a unique expression,” she says.

Trust is Secret Love's guiding theme, as signified by compulsively catchy 'Hit My Head All Day' which opens the album. Powered by pistons of breathy synths and cresting arcs of guitar, Florence's signature mix of absurdism and sensitivity, “The song is about manipulation of the body and mind. The lyrics were initially inspired by the use of misinformation on social media by the far right. There are powerful people that seek to influence our behaviour for their own gain; to buy certain things, to vote a certain way. I find it hard to read people's intentions and decide who to trust, even in everyday life. It's easy to fall under the influence of a sinister stranger who seems like a friend. We took a playful approach to the song. At one point it had harmonica on it instead of a vocal. At the demo stage we were inspired by There's a Riot Goin' On by Sly and the Family Stone."

CD album
1.  Hit My Head All Day
2.  Cruise Ship Designer
3.  My Soul / Half Pint
4.  Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy)
5.  Let Me Grow and You'll See the Fruit
6.  Blood
7.  Evil Evil Idiot
8.  Rocks
9.  The Cute Things
10.  I Need You
11.  Joy

“Secret Love is a wonderful album.” - MOJO's Album of the Month *****

“The most important British guitar band of their generation.” - Uncut

“Their best work yet.” - Record Collector's Album of the Month ****

“The most important album of 2026 before its even begun.” - The Standard

“It all works to powerful effect.” - The Guardian's Album of the Week ****

“Fantastically odd and quite affecting.” - The Sunday Times's Album of the Week ****

Artist - Dry Cleaning (click link for complete listing)
Title - Secret Love (click link for more of the same title)
Release Date - 09 Jan 2026
Year of Release - 2026
Original Year of Release - 2026
Format - CD album (CDLP)
Record Label - 4AD
Catalogue No - 4AD0868CD (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Wallet Sleeve, Sealed, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 191400086821
Condition - Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - 4R-CDSE882876

GENRES
00s Artists, Art Rock, Indie, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Post-Punk.

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