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- Summary: The third full-length studio release from British post-punk band Dry Cleaning was produced by Cate Le Bon.
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- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Post-Punk
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Score distribution:
- Positive: 21 out of 22
- Mixed: 1 out of 22
- Negative: 0 out of 22
- Jan 9, 2026Songs like Joy and Cruise Ship Designer and Hit My Head All Day offer enough immediate pleasures to ensure the replays keep happening. It adds up to an incredible record from one of the very best bands in the world.
- Jan 9, 2026Dry Cleaning sound more expansive and present than ever on Secret Love, transcending their role as sprechgesang post-punk standard-bearers to become innovators whose surreal, poetic expressions of emotion reveal hearts as open as their eyes.
- Jan 26, 2026Dry Cleaning are still an acquired taste. But for those already tuned in, this is their most confident and complete record yet.
- Jan 6, 2026It all works, to powerful effect. The sense of a band who have outgrown their original remit, outstripped their initial WTF? novelty value, and are shifting confidently into new spaces, is difficult to miss.
- Jan 7, 2026It’s not a record likely to shift anyone’s needle on Dry Cleaning, but for those on the fonder side, it’s a whole new set of treats to explore.
- Jan 7, 2026Overall, the band sounds self-assured as they broaden their horizons without alienating their core fans. Secret Love is a gorgeously produced record that sounds vibrant, wandering, engaged, and slightly funky as Dry Cleaning continues to broaden their post-punk scope.
- Jan 6, 2026On their underrated Stumpwork though, they found surprising ways to provide setting, but their and Cate Le Bon’s production choices here are mostly safe. The album’s second side starts meaner, muddying the palette nicely, while the shuffling, pretty I Need You’s electronic elements are a breath of fresh air.
