Secret Love: Black Re-Vinyl LP Scott Lavene Pitch the Baby

Pitch the Baby

Erda – Marga Höffgen

000-word sleevenote on the history of the album written by the band’s archivist Eoin Devereux who wrote the sleevenote to the reissue of their debut album

How To Say Goodbye

The album opens with the title tune

Secret Love: Black Re-Vinyl LP Scott Lavene Pitch the BabySecret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning, between frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard. Here, the south London four piece take their place in rocks avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral