Watch: Dry Cleaning – ‘Sliced by a Fingernail’

Earlier this year, Dry Cleaning released their new album Secret Love. The beloved band of vocalist Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard’s third album received glowing Album of the Week/Month accolades from the likes of The Sunday Times, The Observer, Record Collector, The Guardian, MOJO, and more, with the latter’s 5* critique calling the album, “a surrealist masterpiece.”

Ahead of the band’s extensive tour kicking off next month, they release the new single ‘Sliced By a Fingernail’, out now. With a backdrop of the band’s rich soundscape of early 80s US punk and hardcore coupled with stoner rock and motorik grooves, Shaw provides abstract lyrics partly about someone who hates attention.

She comments: “A lot of attention makes them feel sliced up. So they fantasise about being hidden inside a huge flower bud and about being anonymous in a crowd at night. The image of a brown mark from a finger nail pressed into a petal inspired some of the lyrics. I thought about peony buds not opening and then browning, and their tightness. The lyrics were also inspired by illustrator Jooyoung Kim‘s picture book about a dog who has a long body, called ‘Welcome to My Life’.

Stream / download ‘Sliced by a Fingernail’ here.
Purchase / stream Secret Love here.

Dry Cleaning Secret Love Tour AUNZ

Thursday 28 May | The Princess Theatre | Brisbane, QLD
*Presented by Open Season

Friday 29 May | Sydney Opera House | Sydney, NSW
*Presented by VIVID Live

Saturday 30 May | Forum Melbourne | Melbourne, VIC
*Presented by RISING:Melbourne and Triple R

Tuesday 2 June | Meow Nui | Wellington, NZ

Wednesday 3 June | Hollywood Avondale | Auckland, NZ

Saturday 6 June | The Naval Store | Perth, WA

Sunday 7 June | Civic Hall | Ballarat, VIC

Thursday 11 June | Odeon Theatre | Hobart, TAS
*Presented by Dark MOFO

Tickets and further tour info at mg.live/drycleaning