Dry Cleaning seeped quickly onto the scene, debuting with two of the best EPs from 2019 and one of the best albums of 2021 with New Long Leg. The fact that they were so quick to rush out a second album was concerning. Was it a rush job, or a lighter album helmed on tour stops? Neither, in fact, the seeds of Stumpwork were written before New Long Leg was even finished, which cements that not only are the band prodigious writers but that when the band is given more time to hone their songs, as they do here, the results are that much stronger.