Dry Cleaning review – left-field art rockers are a deadpan delight
Dry Cleaning review – artful theatrics and clever songwriting, but no singalongs
November 2022
Cult guitarist Roy Montgomery on Flying Nun, grief and embracing mistakes: ‘It’s an existential thing’
Beloved by the likes of Dry Cleaning and Grouper, Montgomery’s life has been hit by more than one tragedy, stories he traces in meditative instrumentals
October 2022
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography
‘You’re doing it purely for the exposure’: why many musicians can no longer afford to tour
Dry Cleaning: ‘We bond over food a lot. It’s a big part of the band’
The deadpan London post-punk band and the gloriously danceable Malian musician offer a delicious contrast early in the festival
May 2022
Stars of summer: Florence Shaw, Claire Rushbrook, Arthur Hughes and Patricia Allison
Some of the actors and musicians in the summer’s most exciting new shows, from Grace Jones’s Meltdown to a radical Richard III, give us a taste of what to expect
April 2022
‘Holding the artist to ransom’: musicians struggle to break even as venues and Universal cream off merch sales
The Guardian found that Universal Music Group is profiting from the 25% cut that UK music venue chain AMG takes from gig merchandise sales – at a time when artists are feeling the pinch
December 2021
Best music of 2021
The 50 best albums of 2021
Best music of 2021
The 50 best albums of 2021, No 7: Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
November 2021
Honest playlist
‘I know all the words to Copacabana’: Katy Wix’s honest playlist
The comedian on her love of Mahler’s Symphony No 5 – and the folk song from Georgia that she sings in the shower
September 2021
The music essay
Collapsed laughing: how the gap between music and comedy has disappeared
Comedy and music have always co-existed – but with artists from Dry Cleaning to Bo Burnham cleverly blurring the two, it’s hard to tell where the jokes begin and end
June 2021
Best culture of 2021 so far
The best albums of 2021 so far
From drill’s high watermark to Tuareg rock, Colombian pop and London jazz, here are our music editors’ picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year
April 2021
The month's best album reviews
Dry Cleaning, Taylor Swift and more: April’s best album reviews
Discover all our four- and five-star album reviews from the last month, from pop to folk and classical
Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg review – a singular debut
The everyday becomes poetic on this intensely original album of post-punk shape-shifting from the south London foursome
Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg review - terrific post-punk poets of the everyday
Florence Shaw’s laconic spoken delivery is a highlight in a talented band making the quotidian exciting
March 2021
Dry Cleaning: the post-punks who sing about Meghan Markle and Müller Rice
The south London-based quartet capture the absurdities of life via sardonic spoken-word lyrics
February 2021
On my radar
On my radar: Brett Anderson's cultural highlights
The Suede frontman on his latest musical discoveries, the brilliance of Michael Clark and the enduring appeal of mudlarking by the Thames
