Dry Cleansing Announce New Cate Le Bon-Produced Album, Share New Tune “Hit My Head All Day”
Secret Love Due Out January 9, 2026 by way of 4AD
Sep 29, 2025
Images by Max Miechowski
South-London band Dry Cleansing have introduced a brand new album, Secret Love, and shared its first single, “Hit My Head All Day.” Fellow musician Cate Le Bon produced the album. Secret Love is due out January 9, 2026 by way of 4AD. Beneath, take a look at the only and album particulars, in addition to the band’s upcoming tour dates.
The band options singer Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton, and bassist Lewis Maynard.
Dry Cleansing labored on Secret Love at varied studios, together with Jeff Tweedy’s The Loft in Chicago, with Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox at Sonic Studios in Dublin, and eventually with Cate Le Bon at Black Field within the Loire Valley in France.
“Being in a room with them and listening to that vitality and life drive that exists between all of them, it’s such a novel expression,” Le Bon says in a press launch.
Of the brand new single, Shaw says: “The tune is about manipulation of the physique and thoughts. The lyrics have been initially impressed by means of misinformation on social media by the far proper. There are highly effective those that search to affect our behaviour for their very own acquire; to purchase sure issues, to vote a sure method. I discover it laborious to learn individuals’s intentions and determine who to belief, even in on a regular basis life. It’s straightforward to fall below the affect of a sinister stranger who looks like a buddy. We took a playful method to the tune. At one level it had harmonica on it as a substitute of a vocal. On the demo stage we have been impressed by There’s a Riot Goin’ On by Sly and the Household Stone.”
Dry Cleansing started with the 2 EPs Boundary Street Snacks and Drinks and Candy Princess EP in 2019. These have been adopted by their debut LP New Lengthy Leg in 2021 and most up-to-date LP Stumpwork in 2022. In 2023 they launched the Swampy EP.
Stream Stumpwork right here and skim our rave assessment of the album right here. Stumpwork additionally landed on our Prime 100 Albums of 2022 record.
Learn our 2019 interview with Dry Cleansing.
Learn our 2021 interview with Dry Cleansing.
Secret Love Tracklist:
1. Hit My Head All Day
2. Cruise Ship Designer
3. My Soul / Half Pint
4. Secret Love (Hid in a Drawing of a Boy)
5. Let Me Develop and You’ll See the Fruit
6. Blood
7. Evil Evil Fool
8. Rocks
9. The Cute Issues
10. I Want You
11. Pleasure
Dry Cleansing Tour Dates:
Thu. Oct. 2 – New York, NY, Warsaw
Sat. Oct. 11 – Cut up, HR, Planet Dom Pageant
Thu. Oct. 23 – Madrid, ES @ Barceló Theatre
Fri. Oct. 24 – Valencia, ES @ Loco Membership
Sat. Oct. 25 – Barcelona, ES @ Paral.lel 62
Fri. Nov. 7 – Brighton, UK @ Mutations Pageant
Sat. Nov. 8 – Bristol, UK @ Easy Issues Pageant
Sat. Jan. 3 – Bognor Regis, UK @ Rockaway Seashore Pageant
Wed. Apr. 22 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
