The Launderette

style

• post-punk
• gothic rock
• angular guitars
• driving bass
• female alto
• sardonic and cold
• sparse production
• tension and release
• british accent
• standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm

136

key

D major

energy

0.72

dance

0.95

valence

0.52

vocal at

3.2s

length

3:15

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental, tense)

We formed a band because the dryers cost a pound an hour
And a pound an hour is cheaper than the pub, marginally
Four of us, one bench, the smell of other people's clean
(people's clean)
Best rehearsal space in Manchester and it was free

The woman behind the counter hated us (hated us)
Then she came to a gig. Then she hated us differently.

The launderette
(launderette)
Where we invented ourselves for a pound an hour
The launderette
It's a vape shop now, which is somehow crueller

They regenerated it, which is the verb they use for removed
The bench went, the dryers went, the smell went
Some lad in a lanyard called it "underused space"
(underused space)
Four albums came out of that underused space, mate

We asked if we could buy the bench.
They'd already skipped it.
We drove to the skip. It was gone from there too.
(BAND BACK IN, HARDER)

The launderette
(launderette)
Where we invented ourselves for a pound an hour
The launderette
It's a vape shop now, which is somehow crueller

(gone.)