As a rule, i usualy cant stand when singers sort of speak rythmically rather than sing. On paper, i should hate this song, but instead its downright my favorite. What a cool ass song! Couldnt be cooler!
Florence often channels this fun but dark persona and I think she enjoys playing this type of character. It's like Jodie Comer when she found it cathartic playing psychopathic assassin Villanelle in the TV show Killing Eve. Florence is a lovely person who has a laugh with the band and the audience between songs but during the songs it's as if she's in character or in her performance persona. It's great to watch her perform.
I just stumbled across this song. My daughter was listening to her playlist on auto and she'd left the room while i was cleaning the kitchen and after 20 seconds I had to stop to find out who it was. I LOVE this song. Reminds me of an 80s pop rhythm with a 90s indie sound.
Listening to this in Feb 2021 just after the birth of my baby in the midst of covid. Listened to this song on repeat. Lyrics, tone, melody seemed to capture some kind of feeling, randomness, chaos and feeling EVERYTHING! And moving into a new era
perfect description. and going by your icon (and a fellow TMV fan): I can see how this sort of music attracts other TMV fans. the musicianship is just THERE.
What a band and what a vocalist. There's something magical in the way that they chose Florence Shaw to join them. They saw something in her. She was an artist and lecturer but they saw her as someone who was gifted enough to be the vocalist for the band. Whether she sang or spoke. They were right. What makes Dry Cleaning such an amazing band is you have this great music from the lads combined with the unique and wonderful lyrics of Florence Shaw.
The lyrics are wonderfully disjointed, I do wonder how Florence manages to remember them all without jumbling them up, especially when first performing them. Elevated spoken word. This stuff really is magikal :)
Totally agree! So good to see an intelligent 'Official Video'. Visually/artistically , this picks up where Talking Heads left off in 1980. Musically, it's in a world of it's own.
The level of perceptiveness and beautifully presented cynical observations in the lyrics combined with the expression, precision, realness and subtlety they are delivered with is just too much for my brain. AAAARGH! Too amazing!
This band are a breath of fresh air, and a proper break from the norm. Fantastic pace, vibe, lyrics, visuals and so much energy. What an outfit. Can't wait to see you all live!
this is the most brilliant music video i've seen in a long, long time. killer music, killer vision. brings me back to when people tried to make statements with their music videos.
In a weeks time I've come from deeply respecting the artisty of this band to falling in love with everything they do, this *IS* now my new favorite band.
Unbelievable! This band would fit perfectly 4AD's "Natures Mortes - Still Lives" compilation. And nobody would probably guess that they recorded their music almost 40 years later. We are back in the early 80's. Love it!
Wow just wow... Dry Cleaning are the most interesting artists I've heard since Aldous Harding--another 4AD find. This band is giving me the same feeling I had when I got my first Bauhaus album in 1986 or when I bought Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation album in 1990. Hats off to these artists and to 4AD for finding them and having the courage to release this.
Yeah it’s like she can’t stop hearing certain phrases on repeat in her head and they work their way into the art somehow. “Tokyo bouncy ball” “do everything, feel nothing” “a woman in aviators firing a bazooKA”, “why don’t you want oven chips?” I love this song more and more because of the lyrics.
Good observation. Check out their full performance on KEXP; during the interview portion she says overheard conversational fragments are the exact source of her lyrics, plus random Twitter and Instagram posts that she's stored away for whatever reason. Cool fucking band.
I laughed so hard when she said that line about oven chips. Dry Cleaning are so incredible and I'm thrilled that they're with a label who will know what to do with them.
@@LiamPorterFilms I agree wholeheartedly with you (at the expense of upsetting my Northern cousins haha). The line in the song is just so decidedly and uniquely English, which I think is perhaps the key strength of the lyrics. Not only are they consistently interesting, amusing or insightful, but they are all of those things in a way that is often completely unique to their origin. In a world that is so interconnected I find it fascinating to have a band who are so consistently and specifically from a certain time and place.
Great deadpan vocal - c.f. early Jo Brand's stand up persona of "The Seamonster". Come for the wonderful video; return endlessly for the ace lyrics and superb riffage
We first saw this at 2K views and thought it was mesmeric. Razor sharp bass and guitar and one of the most immersive videos in years. Heading to 500K views now and getting mainstream press. Good luck to them... they've clearly got the minerals.
Most fans are from older age groups, according to the comments. We've been listening to this (or even far more radical) sort of music for decades. Youths are living in a different world now.
@@unakennelly What threw me was the lyrical content, which when it comes from other young artists, I find less relatable as I age. This (and others from their album) hits the bullseye.
there may be hope for music yet! Dry Cleaning is a perfect example of that. if the world were to end in a few short weeks, I'd leave feeling glad I got to experience Scratchcard Lanyard (among other things of course)
Whilst watching, a drop of sweat dripped off my head in the gym, it landed on the screen and it sped up to 1.5x - try the nice remix I promise it works!!
I'm 71. Just saw them in Toronto. Love the band.
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like listening to Dry Cleaning
Nice one! I’m 59….I also love this
and your age has what relevance ?
Here's a cookie
Did you have a good time? I would have probably been arrested for having too much fun.
"why don't you want oven chips now?" made me do a little embarassing snort-laugh. Love it.
as someone obsessed with both this band and tiny things, this video is just REALLY doing it for me
congratulations, finally the world fits you.
the same!!
I know, right?! They're everything! I, too, adore all that is tiny!!!
You have "Snow White Syndrome"
Needs more kitten
This song hit all the right buttons in my brain. Then I watched the video, and realized I had more buttons.
LOL I love this comment
All. The. Buttons.
You're hilarious!
Hahahaha. Perfect comment.
It's so good!¡!!!!!!!
"Well I tell you one thing; you've got it coming. One day you're gonna GEDDIT"
A chilling vision of things to come there.
The guitar sound on this record is absolutely tremendous.
You " Don't Have 2 " Scratch Beneath The Surface " In Order To Appreciate The " Brilliance Of " Dry Cleaning " !! From Adrian Browne 1965
I am that Hardy banana wearing aviators, dancing in my ceramic shoes 👠 ❤❤
Florence & The Cleaning Machine
This video cought my attention before, and then a clip from Glastonbury festival appeared with the same band. Definatly a band to watch
4AD is an unparalleled curatorial musical force. For like 40 years.
Truth! One of the first CDs I ever bought was Come On Pilgrim (1987).
Absolutely!
@@BrendanMacWade Same here! Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim were my downfall into this beautiful abyss...
Thanks for the heads-up. 😊
Well said. Awesome label!
As a rule, i usualy cant stand when singers sort of speak rythmically rather than sing. On paper, i should hate this song, but instead its downright my favorite. What a cool ass song! Couldnt be cooler!
She should be the narrator of every audiobook.
I get goosebumps everytime she says "One day you are gonna get it"
and then the "HA" that comes after is just the cherry on top
@@sunsetman22 Yesterday was the day that I got it, and it came with both a HA and a bazooka but no lanyard.
If you read the comments while the song is playing you get to this comment at the exact time it happens.
Florence often channels this fun but dark persona and I think she enjoys playing this type of character. It's like Jodie Comer when she found it cathartic playing psychopathic assassin Villanelle in the TV show Killing Eve. Florence is a lovely person who has a laugh with the band and the audience between songs but during the songs it's as if she's in character or in her performance persona. It's great to watch her perform.
You got a new coat, new hair, but I’ll tell you one thing
One day, you’re gonna get it
Joy Division topped by Patti Smith poetry. Just spectacular.
utter hackneyed bollox.
I just stumbled across this song. My daughter was listening to her playlist on auto and she'd left the room while i was cleaning the kitchen and after 20 seconds I had to stop to find out who it was. I LOVE this song. Reminds me of an 80s pop rhythm with a 90s indie sound.
Has a Sonic Youth thing. And that’s a good thing.
You mean kool thing :)
came here sweeping the interwebs for inspiring videoclips ....i think im on the right path :D
Mr. Guitar player: Don't change a thing. Keep doing what you're doing.
just straight jam shredding. so good.
With 47 years of guitar experience, I agree 100%
loving the playing and the tone
@david calatayud Certainly less chaotic playing than At the Drive-In - which is not necessarily a bad thing. Great riffing and tone indeed.
yeah, good post punk guitarrist
Just met my Talking Heads, ND nerve. I just need to be weird and hard for a while, I came here to learn to mingle. No words...its love. Thank you x
A woman in aviators firing a bazooka ❤
"bahh-zew-kuh"
Love how she pronounces that.
@@LiamPorterFilms Deep down that's shallow.
I knew I wasn't the only one to like Dark Fate ;)
Is that not the way other people pronounce it?
I’m a steeped-in-the-eighties new wave devotee and this delights me to the utmost degree.
Listening to this in Feb 2021 just after the birth of my baby in the midst of covid. Listened to this song on repeat. Lyrics, tone, melody seemed to capture some kind of feeling, randomness, chaos and feeling EVERYTHING! And moving into a new era
everything is so hypnotizing about this song. the nonchalant spoken word lyrics, the catchy guitar and bass riffs… *chefs kiss*
don't forget the subtle eyebrow raises and the inscrutable scowl, lol
One of the ones where it finishes only to immediately be played again and then again a few times the next morning.
This song is just chock full of kickass riffs
This album is chock full of kickass riffs
Not sure why, but the guitar work reminds me of INXS, The One Thing.
The guitar in background is worth following
do everything and feel nothing
I'VE COME TO JOIN A KNITTING CIRCLE
It’s like spoken word poetry backed by tight musicianship, and for that reason sharks, I’m willing to invest.
just as many of us enjoyed with John Cooper Clarke & The Invisible Girls - back in the day.
@@davidtate8273 Spot on tie-in
perfect description.
and going by your icon (and a fellow TMV fan): I can see how this sort of music attracts other TMV fans. the musicianship is just THERE.
Buy low sell high!
The Fall meets Sonic Youth
absolutely brilliant. my favorite part is when she says menacingly 'you're going to get it' then an aggressive exhalation of breath. pure genius
What a band and what a vocalist. There's something magical in the way that they chose Florence Shaw to join them. They saw something in her. She was an artist and lecturer but they saw her as someone who was gifted enough to be the vocalist for the band. Whether she sang or spoke. They were right. What makes Dry Cleaning such an amazing band is you have this great music from the lads combined with the unique and wonderful lyrics of Florence Shaw.
So true!
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like listening to Dry Cleaning
It seems like she'd make a great actress, good looking too. What did she lecture in?
@@anneother6224 Graphics, Illustration, drawing ...
When you've known each other for years like this band before becoming a band there's already a great chemistry between them.
Found this band during Covid. Love this band so much. I've seen them 4 times and can't wait til they tour again.
guitarist is truly a string beast!
Is there a limit to how many times someone can legally listen to this video in one day? I may have a problem.
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like listening to Dry Cleaning
The lyrics are wonderfully disjointed, I do wonder how Florence manages to remember them all without jumbling them up, especially when first performing them. Elevated spoken word. This stuff really is magikal :)
This is one of the smartest, most inventive music videos I've seen in a long long time. I am so onboard.
Agreed!
Totally agree! So good to see an intelligent 'Official Video'. Visually/artistically , this picks up where Talking Heads left off in 1980. Musically, it's in a world of it's own.
Me too, awesome video.
Different level, brilliant
Cleverish budget video, which is the standard nowadays. They would deserve more.than this.
This entire album is my top go to listening album for the next lifetime.
Love their sound.
Stay Clean
The level of perceptiveness and beautifully presented cynical observations in the lyrics combined with the expression, precision, realness and subtlety they are delivered with is just too much for my brain. AAAARGH! Too amazing!
It’s a Life without buildings rip off
Loved seeing you up at The Park at Glastonbury. I was the one who picked up the beach ball for this track. It was a Somerset bouncy ball.
I keep coming back here every few days to see this video again and again and again. It's even my profile pic on Facebook, just far too cool.
This band are a breath of fresh air, and a proper break from the norm. Fantastic pace, vibe, lyrics, visuals and so much energy. What an outfit. Can't wait to see you all live!
I love them.
Queen Florence!👑
Just had the amazing pleasure of seeing them in San Francisco. They were outstanding. Florence Shaw was on my bucket list. Check!
I feel like this is a song about someone simply checking into life, collecting experiences and marking off a list because that is what is expected.
That is literally what she does. Che collects conversations
this is the most brilliant music video i've seen in a long, long time. killer music, killer vision. brings me back to when people tried to make statements with their music videos.
exactly - it's just the one idea. It reminds me of Michel Gondry.
Anyone read the transcript? Luverley.
In a weeks time I've come from deeply respecting the artisty of this band to falling in love with everything they do, this *IS* now my new favorite band.
So delishously enchanting, i'm gonna have another slice...
I learned about Wet Leg and this band in a one-month span. I think I have what I need for the year.
now rediscover Dead Anyway
Reminds me of Meryn cadwell sweater song😂
Unbelievable! This band would fit perfectly 4AD's "Natures Mortes - Still Lives" compilation. And nobody would probably guess that they recorded their music almost 40 years later. We are back in the early 80's. Love it!
It's got that early Pretenders vibe, if Chrissy Hynde had a vengeance.
My brother recommended me this band a couple days ago. This is fucking awesome!
that guitar "wwwaaaaAAHHH" before the solo was incredible.
Dry Cleaning is poetry in motion...literally & figuratively.
I have just listened to this like 10 times in a row, i’m so obsessed
Have been loving this for a month now and can say, with some certainty, that the sharp exhale at 3:45 is the best bit of audio of 2020.
I love the concept and the puppets dancing around!
Wow just wow... Dry Cleaning are the most interesting artists I've heard since Aldous Harding--another 4AD find. This band is giving me the same feeling I had when I got my first Bauhaus album in 1986 or when I bought Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation album in 1990. Hats off to these artists and to 4AD for finding them and having the courage to release this.
Pylon
Sonic Youth x Joy Division
I like the EPs and singles, but was completely underwhelmed by the LP-which is surprising being that I’m a huge fan of The Fall and Sonic youth.
I didn't think I could enjoy guitar music anymore, but here we are.
Some of the lines in this are just genius!....do everything and feel nothing!
Big thanks to my bro Marlo for putting me on to this tune. Didn't like it at first, now I can't get enough of it. Always good tunes with you Mart. 😁🤞
I’m obsessed ❤
I hate to play favourites with any band but Tom Dowse is like a modern-day Edge
That was a ride! Superb!
Shout out to all the songs you don't really like the first 15 times you hear them, then suddenly they're all you want to hear.
i feel like the lyrics are just fragments of conversations, also it could not get more modern-british than the discussion over oven chips
Yeah it’s like she can’t stop hearing certain phrases on repeat in her head and they work their way into the art somehow. “Tokyo bouncy ball” “do everything, feel nothing” “a woman in aviators firing a bazooKA”, “why don’t you want oven chips?” I love this song more and more because of the lyrics.
Good observation. Check out their full performance on KEXP; during the interview portion she says overheard conversational fragments are the exact source of her lyrics, plus random Twitter and Instagram posts that she's stored away for whatever reason. Cool fucking band.
I laughed so hard when she said that line about oven chips. Dry Cleaning are so incredible and I'm thrilled that they're with a label who will know what to do with them.
@@ThatJoeGClift In my family we often mutinied against our parents for too many oven chips in the week... very boring food.
@@LiamPorterFilms I agree wholeheartedly with you (at the expense of upsetting my Northern cousins haha). The line in the song is just so decidedly and uniquely English, which I think is perhaps the key strength of the lyrics. Not only are they consistently interesting, amusing or insightful, but they are all of those things in a way that is often completely unique to their origin. In a world that is so interconnected I find it fascinating to have a band who are so consistently and specifically from a certain time and place.
Great deadpan vocal - c.f. early Jo Brand's stand up persona of "The Seamonster".
Come for the wonderful video; return endlessly for the ace lyrics and superb riffage
That riff, can't get enough of it 💗
Late to the party but glad I made the effort. Amazing band.
love the way she says 'child chat.'
Tuff City Radio (90.1FM) just played this song, and I'm your newest fan!
Those dolls are having the time of their lives, hope to safely dance to Dry Cleaning live one day as well.
I just heard this song on the radio. 2 minutes later I was looking it up on UA-cam. Already love this band. Wow.
Why this is so good? I'm fascinated...
0:53 when my coworkers ask me if I want to go out for lunch
We first saw this at 2K views and thought it was mesmeric. Razor sharp bass and guitar and one of the most immersive videos in years. Heading to 500K views now and getting mainstream press. Good luck to them... they've clearly got the minerals.
500k views, probably 50,000 people. You can't listen to this only once.
“I love these mighty oaks, don’t you ?
I don't know, I've just come here to make a ceramic shoe.
It's so Brighton, UK. It relates to an actual place...so fun 😁
Such a good lineeee
I do
THE TRANSITION IS SO GOOOOOOOD 1:17 - 1:21
It's TASTY!
@@oopsgirl44 yeah
Already listened to it like 10 times today
Me too!
Same
I've listened to it only once, but I do it every day
Just the 5 times for me today, but it's only 9.30
This made blood flow into new parts of my brain.
Damn. I’m 61. I’m not supposed to like this stuff anymore. Damn. This is f***kin’ brilliant. Damn. Brilliant lyrics. Damn.
Most fans are from older age groups, according to the comments. We've been listening to this (or even far more radical) sort of music for decades. Youths are living in a different world now.
That's crazy - there's nothing you're not supposed to like! This is your youth - channelling late '70s/early '80s post punk. Glorious!
@@ipiap True - and a quick google search confirms to me that most of the virtual ink spilled about this band seems to be from older "critics."
@@unakennelly What threw me was the lyrical content, which when it comes from other young artists, I find less relatable as I age. This (and others from their album) hits the bullseye.
You can like any stuff at any time!
It's your life to do what you want!
So glad i watched a Wet Leg video because now awesome shit is poppin up on my feed
Dry Cleaning are so much better, especially the first two EPs
It's just the Fall, but that's a good thing
Just when I thought great/original music was a thing of the past, this comes along and blows me away. Wow!!
there may be hope for music yet! Dry Cleaning is a perfect example of that. if the world were to end in a few short weeks, I'd leave feeling glad I got to experience Scratchcard Lanyard (among other things of course)
Hardly original. Don’t get me wrong I love their sound, but that’s because it’s directly taken from Sonic Youth and The Fall!
oh here's another one! arrogance and ignorance often go hand in hand
@@zeb1995 boo hoo, Paul sad.
Love your song again regards mikey from the band the pink hurts seaside fishing village town UA-cam ❤😂
Love that song regards mike ❤
Dry cleaning sure do get your neurotransmitters firing
A world weary, slightly cynical middle aged man loves this. It makes me smile from ear to ear and even produces a little tear.
I'm in love with this womans expressions
Do everything. Feel nothing.
I need more music with London accent ... it sounds so special .
her skin is so clear and well taken care of
Whilst watching, a drop of sweat dripped off my head in the gym, it landed on the screen and it sped up to 1.5x - try the nice remix I promise it works!!
There is something beautiful about this band.
This is like spanking brand new The Blue Aeroplanes albums :) :) Love you so much, Dry Cleaning. :) :) 4AD 4ever :) :)
This track, and the video, just really capture a bitter feeling. Absolute genius.
Dirty wet rock by Dry Cleaning 😎
Fuck it - this the best band I have heard in at least 10 years. It’s exhilarating...
these guys are great! check out black midi, squid, and black country new road if you haven't already
Check out the Drinks
Only heard them the first time Tuesday night - so excited about them!
I could listen to her voice for hours and hours.
I'm addicted to this song/video. Hats off to not only the band, but the creative team that made this incredible video. Video art
the most original sounds in 30 years.