DRY CLEANING

New Long Leg

Hard to improve on Victoria Segal’s description of Dry Cleaning singer Florence Shaw as “joining dots between Mark E Smith and Barbara Pym” in her MOJO review of this fine debut. If some Brit postpunk contemporaries had an off-the-peg eccentricity, Dry Cleaning were more creative bricoleurs: deadpan more than indignant; literary collagists with a streamlined sound that could evoke both Pulp and Sonic Youth simultaneously. Standout track: Leafy