UK band Dry Cleaning have dropped new single “Cruise Ship Designer”, the track is off the quartet’s forthcoming album Secret Love, available January 9 2026 via 4AD. The song follows previous single “Hit My Head All Day” and arrives alongside a music video featuring the band’s Lewis Maynard performing a dance routine choreographed for the track by BULLYACHE.

Vocalist Vocalist Florence Shaw on “Cruise Ship Designer:”

“The song is about a cruise ship and hotel designer who’s skilled and paid well, but who doesn’t believe his role has real worth. He tries to enjoy it, and invests himself in meeting the challenges of the job.”

Dry Cleaning will hit the road for an extensive North American, European and UK tour that includes the group’s biggest headline shows at LA’s Wiltern and London’s O2 Academy Brixton. YHWH Nailgun will open on the band’s North American leg. Dry Cleaning, was formed by long time friends Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard.

Secret Love came together at Jeff Tweedy’s Chicago studio, as well, with Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox at Sonic Studios in Dublin, taking advantage of the sensory particulars of each space, and finally with Cate Le Bon (Deerhunter, Horsegirl) at Black Box in the Loire Valley. “Being in a room with them and hearing that vitality and life force that exists between them all, it’s such a unique expression,” says Le Bon.

Dry Cleaning
Secret Love
4AD
Tracklist

A1. Hit My Head All Day
A2. Cruise Ship Designer
A3. My Soul / Half Pint
A4. Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy)
A5. Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit
B6. Blood
B7. Evil Evil Idiot
B8. Rocks
B9. The Cute Things
B10. I Need You
B11. Joy

Dry Cleaning 2026 Tour Dates

3 January – BOGNOR REGIS, UK, Rockaway Beach Festival
9 January – BRIGHTON, UK, Chalk (Resident) 
10 January – LONDON, UK, Rough Trade East 
13 January – BRISTOL, UK, Strange Brew (Rough Trade) 
14 January – LEEDS, UK, Brudenell (Crash) 
15 January – NOTTINGHAM, UK, Metronome (Rough Trade)
23 January – CHICAGO, IL, USA, Thalia Hall *
26 January – TORONTO, CANADA, Concert Hall *
27 January – MONTREAL, CANADA, Le National *
29 January – BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Brooklyn Steel *
31 January – HUDSON, NY, USA, Basilica Hudson *
1 February – PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA, Union Transfer *
3 February – WASHINGTON, DC, USA, Black Cat *
4 February – ASHEVILLE, NC, USA, The Orange Peel *
5 February – NASHVILLE, TN, USA, Basement East *
6 February – ATLANTA, GA, USA, Variety Playhouse *
7 February – BIRMINGHAM, AL, USA, Saturn *
9 February – DALLAS, TX, USA, Texas Theatre *
10 February – AUSTIN, TX, USA, RADIO/EAST *
12 February – PHOENIX, AZ, USA, Crescent Ballroom *
13 February – LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, The Wiltern *
15 February – SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, Casbah *
16 February – SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, Casbah *
18 February – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, The Fillmore *
19 February – SONOMA, CA, USA, Gundlach Bundchu *
21 February – SEATTLE, WA, USA, Showbox *
22 February – PORTLAND, OR, USA, Wonder Ballroom *
7 April – BERLIN, GERMANY, Festsaal Kreuzberg
9 April – COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, Vega
10 April – HAMBURG, GERMANY, Mojo Club
11 April – AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, Melkweg
13 April – BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, AB Box
14 April – PARIS, FRANCE, Le Trianon
17 April – DUBLIN, IRELAND, Vicar Street
18 April – LIMERICK, IRELAND, Dolan’s
20 April – CARDIFF, UK, Tramshed
21 April – BIRMINGHAM, UK, XOYO
22 April – LONDON, UK, O2 Academy Brixton
24 April – GLASGOW, UK, SWG3 TV Studio
25 April – MANCHESTER, UK, New Century Hall

* with YHWH Nailgun

Pre-order Secret Love by Dry Cleaning HERE