Dry Cleansing Announce New North American, EU, and UK Tour Dates
Secret Love Due Out January 9, 2026 by way of 4AD
Oct 14, 2025
Pictures by Max Miechowski
South-London band Dry Cleansing are releasing a brand new album, Secret Love, on January 9, 2026 by way of 4AD. Now they’ve introduced some new tour dates that embody reveals in North America, Europe, and the UK. Tickets go on sale this Friday, October 17, at 10 a.m. native time. Take a look at all of the dates under.
Fellow musician Cate Le Bon produced Secret Love. Beforehand they shared its first single, “Hit My Head All Day,” which was #1 on our Songs of the Week listing.
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 pressure that exists between all of them, it’s such a singular expression,” Le Bon says in a press launch.
Of “Hit My Head All Day,” Shaw says: “The music is about manipulation of the physique and thoughts. The lyrics have been initially impressed by way of misinformation on social media by the far proper. There are highly effective those that search to affect our behaviour for their very own achieve; to purchase sure issues, to vote a sure manner. I discover it arduous to learn individuals’s intentions and resolve who to belief, even in on a regular basis life. It’s simple to fall below the affect of a sinister stranger who looks like a good friend. We took a playful strategy to the music. 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 Highway 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 browse our rave evaluate of the album right here. Stumpwork additionally landed on our Prime 100 Albums of 2022 listing.
Learn our 2019 interview with Dry Cleansing.
Learn our 2021 interview with Dry Cleansing.
Dry Cleansing Tour Dates:
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 Seaside Pageant
Fri. Jan. 23 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Corridor %
Mon. Jan. 26 – Toronto, ON @ Live performance Corridor %
Tue. Jan. 27 – Montreal, QC @ Le Nationwide %
Thu. Jan. 29 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Metal %
Sat. Jan. 31 – Hudson, NY @ Basilica Hudson %
SUN. Feb. 1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Switch %
Tue. Feb. 3 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat %
Wed. Feb. 4 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel %
Thu. Feb. 5 – Nashville, TN @ Basement East %
Fri. Feb. 6 – Atlanta, GA @ Selection Playhouse %
Sat. Feb. 7 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn %
MON. Feb. 9 – Dallas, TX @ Texas Theatre %
Tue. Feb. 10 – Austin, TX @ RADIO/EAST %
Thu. Feb. 12 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom %
Fri. Feb. 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern %
Solar. Feb. 15 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah %
Mon. Feb. 16 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah %
Wed. Feb. 18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore %
Thu. Feb. 19 – Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu %
Sat. Feb. 21 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox %
Solar. Feb. 22 – Portland, OR @ Surprise Ballroom %
Tue. Apr. 7 – Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
Thu. Apr. 9 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
Fri. Apr. 10 – Hamburg, DE @ Mojo Membership
Sat. Apr. 11 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
Mon. Apr. 13 – Brussels, BE @ AB Field
Tue. Apr. 14 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
Fri. Apr. 17 – Dublin, IR @ Vicar Avenue
Sat. Apr. 18 – Limerick, IR @ Dolan’s
MON. Apr. 20 – Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed
Tue. Apr. 21 – Birmingham, UK @ XOYO
Wed. Apr. 22 – London, UK @ O2 Brixton Academy
Fri. Apr. 24 – Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 TV Studio
Sat. Apr. 25 – Manchester, UK @ New Century Corridor
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