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Dry Cleaning “No Decent Shoes for Rain”

Florence Shaw mostly sounds like she’s bemusedly reading a notebook full of random phrases she’s overheard, or trying to recite from memory the most awkward exchanges she’s had in the past week. This is an odd voice to build a band around but it makes sense in the context of Dry Cleaning’s compositions, which are dynamic enough suggest cutting between different scenes in a film. In a song like “No Decent Shoes for Rain” it all clicks together to feel like music that operates on dream logic, all jumbled up in neuroses and absurdity and spliced up sense memory and potent emotional resonances that don’t fully make sense. Should “I’ve seen your arse but not your mouth, that’s normal now” feel as weirdly poignant as it does here? Probably not, but they make it feel like something anyway.

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