Dry Cleaning Announce Album Reissues

Dry Cleaning announce Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks/Sweet Princess reissues. The albums will be available on March 8th via 4AD Records
Dry Cleaning photo credit: Hanna-Katrina Jedrosz

UK band Dry Cleaning, will reissue their first two EPs, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess, on March 8th 2024. Remastered to celebrate the release, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks/Sweet Princess will be pressed as one single vinyl. 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 visualiser for the song ‘Sit Down Meal’, the first in a series of new visualisers created for all tracks across the EP by original “Magic of Meghan” video collaborator Lucy Vann. The EPs will be reissued on single vinyl featuring with original artwork and lyric sheet

Along with the reissues, Dry Cleaning will head back on the road this March and April, the tour will offer fans the chance to see the band play in more intimate venues like Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club and East London’s EartH theatre, and honour US shows that were postponed in 2020 (including SXSW and Treefort festivals).

Dry Cleaning includes 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.

May 2018, saw the band play their first live show in Dalston at the Shacklewell Arms, and released their EP Sweet Princess in August. A further 6 songs 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 the companion to Sweet Princess.

Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks

A1. Dog Proposal
A2. Viking Hair
A3. Spoils
A4. Jam After School
A5. Sombre One
A6. 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

10 March – CHICAGO, IL, US, Empty Bottle
11 March – CHICAGO, IL, US, Empty Bottle
13 March – AUSTIN, TX, US, SXSW
14 March – AUSTIN, TX, US, SXSW
15 March – AUSTIN, TX, US, SXSW
16 March – AUSTIN, TX, US, SXSW
18 March – LOS ANGELES, CA, US, Roxy
19 March – LOS ANGELES, CA, US, Roxy
21 March – SAN FRANSISCO, CA, US, The Independent
22 March – SAN FRANSISCO, CA, US, The Independent
23 March – BOISE, ID, US, Treefort Festival
25 March – NEW YORK, NY, US, Bowery Ballroom
26 March – NEW YORK, NY, US, Bowery Ballroom
5 April – GLASGOW, UK, Saint Luke’s
6 April – NEWCASTLE, UK, The Grove
7 April – BIRKENHEAD, UK, Future Yard
9 April – DUBLIN, IRELAND, Whelan’s
10 April – DUBLIN, IRELAND, Whelan’s
12 April – LEEDS, UK, Brudenell Social Club
13 April – LEEDS, UK, Brudenell Social Club
15 April – BIRMINGHAM, UK, Hare and Hounds
16 April – BIRMINGHAM, UK, Hare and Hounds
18 April – LONDON, UK, EartH Theatre
20 April – ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, Motel Mozaique
21 April – ANTWERP, BELGIUM, Trix Hall
23 April – MUNSTER, GERMANY, Gleis 22
24 April – BERLIN, GERMANY, Halle am Berghain
26 April – PARIS, FRANCE, La Gaite Lyrique
24 May – MADRID, SPAIN, Tomavistas Festival
29 June – NORTH ADAMS, MA, US, Solid Sound Festival

Pre-order Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks/Sweet Princess HERE

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