At the beginning of this year, Dry Cleaning released their new album, Secret Love. The third album from the London-based group consisting of lyricist Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton, and bassist Lewis Maynard received glowing accolades across the globe. Today, Dry Cleaning shares an expanded version of the record, Secret Love (Deluxe Edition), featuring three brand-new tracks recorded during album sessions with producer Cate Le Bon last year; ‘Grass’, ‘I Have The Key’, and the recently released single, ‘Sliced by a Fingernail’. Secret Love (Deluxe Edition) also features alternate Erica Eyres artwork.
Accompanying the Secret Love (Deluxe Edition), BULLYACHE (who choreographed visualizers for all 11 songs off Secret Love), joined forces with the band again to produce dedicated visuals for the three new tracks, all shot at the Mandrake Hotel in London.
“These are three short films that sum up our response to the record”, say BULLYACHE. “We tried to contain all the beautiful conflicts and contrasts. Each video is a portrait of elation, grief, push and pull. With Nicole Nevitt and Sam Dilke playing the differing poles of the songs; Nicole’s hair whipping against Sam’s exhaustive thrash against the luxury of the Mandrake Hotel.”
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (Deluxe Edition) – Music Videos
Choreographed by BULLYACHE
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Dry Cleaning – Grass (Official Video)
Dry Cleaning – I Have The Key (Official Video)
Dry Cleaning – Sliced By a Fingernail (Official Visualiser)
Of the Deluxe Edition, bassist Lewis Maynard comments: “As difficult as it is to choose the final tracklist, we’ve learned with previous records that songs which don’t make the album will see the light of day and sometimes even receive more attention. This is the first time we’ve released a deluxe edition, and we’re especially excited because it includes some of our favourite songs from the session.”
Vocalist Florence Shaw goes into detail on each new track, saying: “The three new songs have a lot of tenderness and vulnerability to them. They’re about feelings of love and loss but also humour that comes along with those heavy feelings.
‘Sliced by a Fingernail’ is about looking for places to hide; fantasies like packing yourself into the centre of a huge flower bud, but also more everyday ones like being part of the crowd at a karaoke bar.
‘Grass’ is about grieving for someone still alive. The lyrics use some metaphors from nature inspired by two trips, one to see the melting Rhône Glacier in Switzerland and the other to Laurissilva, the ‘living fossil’ ancient forest on the island of Madeira. Whilst it has lots of imperfections and was a bit improvised, Cate had a real affinity for the vocal performance we chose for this track.
The lyrics to ‘I Have The Key’ came from a feeling of sadness and helplessness at the state of the world. The genocide in Gaza had begun around the time I was writing some of the lyrics. The saxophone part was improvised by Bruce Lamont at the Loft studio in Chicago, and the structure and delivery of the vocal, as well as the choice of words came as a response to his playing.”
Dry Cleaning’s Secret Love (Deluxe Edition) is available digitally now. A special expanded vinyl version will be available exclusively via Dinked on October 16 and is available to pre-order from today — the Purple and Mint double-LP will include alternate artwork by Erica Eyres, a new booklet, and a bonus 12” vinyl of the three new songs. For more information, head HERE.
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (Deluxe Edition)
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Formats: Digital | Purple and Mint Vinyl LP + Bonus 12” + Booklet (Dinked International Edition, Exclusive, Out October 16)
TRACKLISTING
Secret Love
- Hit My Head All Day
- Cruise Ship Designer
- My Soul / Half Pint
- Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy)
- Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit
- Blood
- Evil Evil Idiot
- Rocks
- The Cute Things
- I Need You
- Joy
Deluxe 12”
PRAISE FOR SECRET LOVE
“Drawn-out guitar lines, thumping rhythms and Florence Shaw’s lackadaisical spoken-word delivery create several earworms that you’d be hard-pressed to shake after a couple listens” – Variety, The Best Albums of 2026
“Whether an angular groove so watertight that it can serve as a song’s foundation, or a little lick of slide guitar that ups the sweetness just the right amount, or a tactically deployed backing vocal to emphasise Florence Shaw’s words, Dry Cleaning as a foursome have never felt so closely intertwined, nor as broad in their capabilities as they do on Secret Love.” – The Quietus, Albums of the Year So Far 2026
“The band delivers Shaw’s postcards from the edge with music that’s appropriately ironic and mordant, but also varied and at points even kind of rousing, from the Eighties college-pop strum of ‘Blood’ to the street-rock strut of “The Cute Things’.” – Rolling Stone, The Best Albums of 2026 So Far
“I think this might be my favorite record of theirs so far, and I think this match up between great producer, great band, finding the same wavelength, has taken them to a new level.” – Sheldon Pearce, NPR Music
“With each album serving as one big swing above home plate, Dry Cleaning use their third LP, Secret Love, to confirm they’ve got one of the most consistent batting averages in modern post-punk […] “Secret Love would be a return to form, but Dry Cleaning never fell out of shape in the first place.” – Pitchfork
“Haunting, peculiar brilliance […] it all works to powerful effect.” – The Guardian’s Album of the Week ****
“It’s an album of unusual pleasures—the assured musicality provides the immediate hook, holding you over until you focus on the lyrics. Once that happens, Ms. Shaw’s uncanny magic takes over.” – Wall Street Journal
“Dry Cleaning is one of those bands with the capacity to change your life.” – Paste
“A surrealist masterpiece.” – MOJO’s Album of the Month ****
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