Dry Cleaning 分享新歌 "Sliced by a Fingernail"

在他们的2026巡演将于下周在德国柏林开幕之前, 英国后朋克乐队 Dry Cleaning 在 4AD 发行了他们的新单曲 "Sliced by a Fingernail." 新闻稿摘录如下:

(March 31, 2026) - Earlier this year, Dry Cleaning, “the most important British guitar band of their generation,” (Uncut) released their new album, Secret Love via 4AD. The beloved band of frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard’s third album earned them glowing praise from fans and critics alike, including NPR Music, Wall Street Journal, Pitchfork, Paste, Rolling Stone, and more, with the latter hailing the album as “the best Dry Cleaning album yet, full of intriguing left turns and surprising new swerves.”

Today, ahead of the band’s extensive North American tour kicking off next month, they release the new single, “Sliced by a Fingernail” accompanied by a visualizer by BULLYACHE. With a backdrop of the band’s rich soundscape of early 80s US punk and hardcore coupled with stoner rock and motorik grooves, Shaw provides abstract lyrics partly about someone who hates attention.

She comments: “A lot of attention makes them feel sliced up. So they fantasise about being hidden inside a huge flower bud and about being anonymous in a crowd at night. The image of a brown mark from a finger nail pressed into a petal inspired some of the lyrics. I thought about peony buds not opening and then browning, and their tightness. The lyrics were also inspired by illustrator Jooyoung Kim's picture book about a dog who has a long body, called ‘Welcome to My Life’.”

To commemorate the release of ‘Sliced by a Fingernail’, a one-off limited-edition t-shirt is now available to purchase exclusively from the Dry Cleaning website. For more information, head here: http://t.cn/AXIaSJu7

Listen to “Sliced by a Fingernail” here: http://t.cn/AXIaSJuz
Watch the Visualizer for “Sliced by a Fingernail” here: http://t.cn/AXIaSJuh

Dry Cleaning’s North American tour dates follow an EU/UK tour and finds the band making stops in major cities including Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and more. Following, the band will tour Australia and New Zealand. Tickets are now on sale and available here: http://t.cn/AX2otn5E http://t.cn/AXIaS96M