Dry Cleaning will reissue their first two EPs, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks / Sweet Princess, on March 8th, 2024. Remastered to celebrate the release, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess will be pressed as one single vinyl record. The former will be available on cassette for the first time and include an exclusive bonus single, a demo of New Long Leg single, “Strong Feelings,” recorded during the sessions for Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks. Today, the band has shared a new visualizer for the song “Sit Down Meal,” the first in a series of new visualizers created for all tracks across the EP by original ‘Magic of Meghan’ video collaborator Lucy Vann.
Watch the visualizer for “Sit Down Meal”
To coincide with the reissues, Dry Cleaning will head back on the road this March and April for headline sets that will lean heavily on songs from Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess. The tour will offer fans the chance to see the band play in more intimate venues and honor US shows that were postponed in 2020 (including SXSW). Tickets are on sale. Full tour dates are listed below and for tickets and information, head HERE.
The EPs will be reissued on vinyl featuring the original artwork and lyric sheet. Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks / Sweet Princess will be available digitally, on standard black LP, transparent blue LP (indie variant), CD and cassette on March 8th. To pre-order head HERE.
After a prolific 18-month period releasing two critically acclaimed John Parish-produced studio albums, New Long Leg (2021) and Stumpwork (2022), as well as last year’s companion release the five-track Swampy EP, South London’s Dry Cleaning are taking a moment to reflect on their journey and pay homage to their roots.
Dry Cleaning’s origin story is well known by now. Guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton, and bassist Lewis Maynard had been friends and musical collaborators for years, and invited mutual friend Florence Shaw – a visual artist, picture researcher and drawing lecturer – to join the band in 2017. With clear musical influences from the Feelies, the Necessaries, the B52s and Pylon, and constrained by the small garage space they rehearsed in, Dry Cleaning were drawn to making simple music; direct and uncomplicated, anything superfluous was left behind.
By March 2018 the group had recorded the six-track debut EP Sweet Princess with producer Kristian Craig Robinson at Total Refreshment Centre in a single day. Two months later, in May 2018, the band played their first live show in Dalston at the Shacklewell Arms, and released the EP in August. Sweet Princess was a thrilling debut, its dizzying and restless instrumentals with Shaw’s sardonic vocals delivering a satirical collage of witty observations and social commentary. A further 6 songs in the form of the Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP quickly followed two months after. It was named in tribute to the band’s rehearsal space in Maynard’s family’s south London (Sidcup) home, and to his mother Susan whose home-cooked meals sustained the four friends in between sessions. With singles like “Sit Down Meal” and “Viking Hair,” Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks is a powerful companion to Sweet Princess. They share a similar pent-up energy, unsurprising given they came to life in the same environment those EPs were created in, an environment that had a huge influence on the band during those formative years.
Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks / Sweet Princess Tracklisting:
Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks:
A1. Dog Proposal
A2. Viking Hair
A3. Spoils
A4. Jam After School
A5. Sit Down Meal
Sweet Princess:
B1. Goodnight
B2. New Job
B3. Magic of Meghan
B4. Traditional Fish
B5. Phone Scam
B6. Conversation
Dry Cleaning 2024 Tour Dates:
Sun. Mar. 10 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Mon. Mar. 11 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Wed. Mar. 13 – Sat. Mar. 16 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mon. Mar. 18 – Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy
Tue. Mar. 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy
Thu. Mar. 21 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Fri. Mar. 22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Sat. Mar. 23 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival
Mon. Mar. 25 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Tue. Mar. 26 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Fri. Apr. 5 – Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s
Sat. Apr. 6 – Newcastle, UK @ The Grove
Sun. Apr. 7 – Birkenhead, UK @ Future Yard
Tue. Apr. 9 – Dublin, IE @ Whelan’s
Wed. Apr. 10 – Dublin, IE @ Whelan’s
Fri. Apr. 12 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Sat. Apr. 13 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Mon. Apr. 15 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare and Hounds
Tue. Apr. 16 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare and Hounds
Thu. Apr. 18 – London, UK @ EartH Theatre
Sat. Apr. 20 – Rotterdam, NL @ Motel Mozaique
Sun. Apr. 21 – Antwerp, BE @ Trix Hall
Tue. Apr. 23 – Munster, DE @ Gleis 22
Wed. Apr. 24 – Berlin, DE @ Halle am Berghain
Fri. Apr. 26 – Paris, FR @ La Gaite Lyrique
Fri. May 24 – Madrid, ES @ Tomavistas Festival
Sat. Jun. 29 – North Adams, MA @ Solid Sound Festival
Keep your mind open.
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