Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

Released 9th January 2026

On 9th January 2026, Dry Cleaning will return with Secret Love, the groups third studio album, produced by Cate Le Bon.

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 rocks 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 Florences 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 resp