"Scratchcard Lanyard" by Dry Cleaning

This is coming at me sideways and it is hitting me just right. Dry Cleaning is a British band comprised of vocalist Florence Shaw (a visual artist, drawing lecturer, and picture researcher with no prior musical experience), Tom Dowse, Lewis Maynard, and Nick Buxton. I love the art rock, post-punk, oblique, cracked, spoken word sensibility of this song "Scratchcard Lanyard." Writing for The Quietus, Europe's largest independent music and culture website, journalist Patrick Clarke correctly called it by saying the band "sound so enthrallingly taut, so spikey, frantic and engaging." 

It's rare that I hear music that so captures the post-punk sense so well...see Fontaines D.C. here and Savages here.

And not least, the video itself is amazingly creative and hypnotizing. They are on the 4AD label after all, home to decades of amazingly rich and creative artists.

Many years have passed but you're still charming
Rose falling and exploding, you can't save the world on your own
I guess
Don't send me it
You keep it
You keep it
You keep it

Weak arms can't open the door, kung fu council
It'll be okay, I just need to be weird and hide for a bit
And eat an old sandwich from my bag
I've come here to make a ceramic shoe
And I've come to smash what you made
I've come to learn how to mingle
I've come to learn how to dance
I've come to join a knitting circle
I've come to hand weave my own bunk bed ladder in a few short sessions

It's a Tokyo bouncy ball
It's an Oslo bouncy ball
It's a Rio de Janeiro bouncy ball
Filter, I love these mighty oaks, don't you?
Do everything and feel nothing
Wristband, theme park, scratchcard, lanyard
Do everything and feel nothing
Do everything and feel nothing

Pat Dad on the head
Alright, you big loud mouth
Thanks very much for the Twix
I think of myself as a hardy banana with that waxy surface
And small delicate flowers
A woman in aviators firing a bazooka
A woman in aviators firing a bazooka

I've come here to make a ceramic shoe
And I've come to smash what you made
I've come to learn how to mingle
I've come to learn how to dance
I've come to join a knitting circle
That's just child chat
Why don't you want oven chips now?

It's a Tokyo bouncy ball
It's an Oslo bouncy ball
It's a Rio de Janeiro bouncy ball
Filter, I love these mighty oaks, don't you?
Do everything and feel nothing
Wristband, theme park, scratchcard, lanyard
Do everything and feel nothing
Do everything and feel nothing

You seem really together, you've got a new coat, new hair
Well, I'll tell you one thing, you've got it coming
One day, you're gonna get it
Ha

https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/