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Guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton, and bassist Lewis Maynard had been friends and musical collaborators for years, and invited mutual friend Florence Shaw – a visual artist, picture researcher and drawing lecturer – to join the band in 2017. With clear musical influences from the Feelies, the Necessaries, the B52s and Pylon, and constrained by the small garage space they rehearsed in, Dry Cleaning were drawn to making simple music; direct and uncomplicated, anything superfluous was left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy March 2018 the group had recorded the six-track debut EP \u003ci\u003eSweet Princess \u003c\/i\u003ewith producer Kristian Craig Robinson at Total Refreshment Centre in a single day. 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