The South London post-punk band Dry Cleaning released their third album, Secret Love, on January 9 via the renowned label 4AD.

The follow-up to New Long Leg (2021) and Stumpwork (2022) was created in the rehearsal space, where all four band members wrote, played, and responded to each other in real time.
The album further evolved during inspiring sessions at Wilco’s studio The Loft in Chicago, and during recordings with Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox of Gilla Band in Dublin. The final recordings took place with Cate Le Bon at Black Box Studio in France.

Secret Love is being showered with stars by the music press.

On Monday, April 13, they will present this album at AB, and tickets are still available!

• ‘Musically and thematically, Secret Love plays as a series of whiplashing vibe shifts, from the deconstructed New Romanticism of “I Need You” to the rocks-off swagger of “The Cute Things,” which presents Dry Cleaning as the rare post-punk-schooled band unafraid to take cues from the Rolling Stones. That eclecticism is reflective of the album’s transatlantic recording process: While Secret Love was completed at a studio in France’s Loire Valley, its darker, doomier tracks were hatched in Dublin with the art-punk pranksters of Gilla Band, while a warmer, earthier approach was cultivated at Wilco’s Chicago studio The Loft.’ - Pitchfork
• ‘If vinegary distorted guitar is still their main thrust on Secret Love, the sound of the album – produced by fellow left-field traveller Cate Le Bon – ventures noticeably beyond that territory, into machine-driven 80s funk on opener Hit My Head All Day; ominous sounding, slow-burn atmospherics on Evil Evil Idiot; I Need You’s synthesised drones. There’s even a hint of warped folk about the guitar figure that drives Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy).’ – The Guardian
• ‘Dry Cleaning zet met 'Secret Love' opnieuw aan tot hoofdschudden en meeknikken’ ★★★★☆- Knack Focus 
• ‘Rijkere klankkleuren op geweldig derde album van postpunkband Dry Cleaning’ ★★★★☆ – De Volkskrant
• ‘Avec l’album « Secret Love », le rock de Dry Cleaning ravive le flegme britanniqueLe groupe londonien publie un troisième opus frontal et doux-amer, où les guitares électriques rencontrent le phrasé impassible de la chanteuse Florence Shaw.’ – Le Monde