Dry Cleaning have always occupied their own strange, magnetic corner of British guitar music — a place where deadpan poetry, wiry riffs and surreal emotional snapshots collide. With their third album Secret Love already hailed as “a surrealist masterpiece” and earning Album of the Week/Month nods across the board, the London quartet are stepping confidently into a new chapter. And now, ahead of a huge run of European, UK, North American and Australasian dates, they’ve dropped a brand‑new single: ‘Sliced by a Fingernail’.

The track arrives with a beautifully odd visual from BULLYACHE — a kind of laundry‑noir dreamscape that mirrors the band’s knack for turning the mundane into something uncanny. Musically, it leans into the band’s rich palette: early‑80s US punk tension, stoner‑rock weight, and those motorik undercurrents that have become part of their DNA. Over it all, Florence Shaw delivers another set of abstract, quietly devastating lines.

Shaw explains that the song circles around someone who recoils from attention — someone who feels “sliced up” by too many eyes. There’s a vivid image at the heart of it: a fingernail pressing into a flower petal, leaving a brown mark. Peony buds that refuse to open. The desire to disappear into a crowd at night. Even a nod to Jooyoung Kim’s picture book Welcome to My Life, about a dog with a comically long body. It’s classic Dry Cleaning territory: the surreal and the sincere, stitched together with a kind of sideways tenderness.

To mark the release, the band have also unveiled a limited‑edition t‑shirt, available exclusively through their website — a one‑off drop for fans who love the band’s visual world as much as their sound.

Dry Cleaning’s upcoming tour is their most ambitious yet, stretching from Berlin to Brixton, Chicago to Sydney, Wellington to Zagreb.

DRY CLEANING TOUR DATES
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 x
21 April – BIRMINGHAM, UK, XOYO x
22 April – LONDON, UK, O2 Academy Brixton = x
24 April – GLASGOW, UK, SWG3 TV Studio x
25 April – MANCHESTER, UK, New Century Hall x
30 April – CHICAGO, IL, USA, Thalia Hall % *
1 May – TORONTO, CANADA, Concert Hall % *
2 May – MONTREAL, CANADA, Foufounes Électriques % *
3 May – HUDSON, NY, USA, Basilica Hudson % *
5 May – BOSTON, MA, USA, Paradise Rock Club % *
6 May – PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA, Union Transfer % *
7 May – BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Brooklyn Steel ^ *
8 May – WASHINGTON, DC, USA, Howard Theater *
10 May – NASHVILLE, TN, USA, Basement East *
12 May – OMAHA, NE, USA, Slowdown *
13 May – DENVER, CO, USA, Meow Wolf *
15 May – SALT LAKE CITY, UT, USA, Kilby Block Party
16 May – BOISE, ID, USA, Shrine Ballroom *
17 May – PORTLAND, OR, USA, Wonder Ballroom *
18 May – SEATTLE, WA, USA, Showbox *
20 May – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, August Hall *
21 May – LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, The Belasco
22 May – SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, Casbah
28 May – BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, The Princess Theatre (Open Season)
29 May – SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, Sydney Opera House (Vivid LIVE) #
30 May – MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, The Forum Theatre (Rising Festival) >
2 June – WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, Meow Nui
3 June – AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, Hollywood Avondale
6 June – FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA, Arrival Festival
7 June – BALLARAT, AUSTRALIA, Civic Hall
11 June – HOBART, AUSTRALIA, Odeon Theatre (Dark Mofo)
22-24 June – ZAGREB, HUNGARY, Inmusic Festival
3 July – KRAGGENBURG, NETHERLANDS, Wilde Weide Festival
10-12 July – BRUGGE, BELGIUM, Cactus Festival
23-26 July – SOUTHWOLD, UK, Latitude Festival
31 July – PORTLAW, IRELAND, All Together Now
6-9 August – CASTELBUONO, ITALY, Ypsigrock Festival
20-23 August – CRICKHOWELL, UK, Green Man Festival
30 August – SAINT-CLOUD, FRANCE, Rock En Seine

+ w/ The Tubs
- w/ Search Results
x w/ Tony Bontana
= w/ Jerkcurb
% w/ YHWH Nailgun
^ w/ Snooper
* w/ Hotline TNT
# w/ Station Model Violence
> w/ Silicone Prairie

Support across the run comes from a brilliantly eclectic cast including The Tubs, Search Results, Tony Bontana, Jerkcurb, YHWH Nailgun, Snooper, Hotline TNT and more — a lineup that mirrors Dry Cleaning’s own taste for the offbeat and the unexpected.

Secret Love has already cemented itself as one of the standout guitar records of the year, with critics praising its emotional depth, sonic ambition and the band’s ever‑evolving chemistry. MOJO called it “a wonderful album,” The Guardian praised its “powerful effect,” and The Sunday Times described it as “fantastically odd and quite affecting.” It’s the sound of a band sharpening their edges while expanding their world.

With a new single, a sprawling tour and a critically adored album, Dry Cleaning feel like a band in full bloom — even if their lyrics still linger on the beauty of things that refuse to open. Sliced by a Fingernail is another reminder of why they’ve become one of the most compelling British guitar acts of their generation: strange, stylish, emotionally precise, and always a few steps left of where you expect them to be.

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