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Dry Cleaning

that we have records out and are signed to a label, it’s hard to communicate just how casual the whole thing was,” says Florence Shaw, still with a faint note of wonder in her voice, four years on. The singer is considering the early days of London four-piece Dry Cleaning, whose deadpan name belies the driving post-punk.

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