Stumpwork
by Dry Cleaning
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Dry Cleaning bestography
Stumpwork is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Dry Cleaning on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Dry Cleaning is New Long Leg which is ranked number 1924 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 883.
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Stumpwork track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Stumpwork rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | SD100852 | Top 52 Music Albums of 2022 | 27/52 | 3 |
| 2026 |  HelsinkiSnorkel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 86/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | MrOlan | Top 60 Music Albums of the 2020s | 60/60 | 0 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 1001-1100 | 18/100 | - |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 19/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 77 Music Albums of 2022 | 76/77 | 0 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 99 Music Albums of 2022 | 10/99 | 5 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Revista La Dosis Los 100 mejores discos internacionales de 2022 | 31/94 | - |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 20/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 112 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 326 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/21/2026 20:19 | LittleM1971 | 6,017 | 81/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2026 10:59 | TonySayers61 | 26,117 | 64/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2026 00:09 | Skerns | 5,224 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 73.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.0.
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imacgill 06/24/2026 01:44 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Stumpwork comments
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Arthurknight 11/03/2022 03:03 | #291004 | TOP COMMENT
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Stumpwork sees Dry Cleaning cleaning up their act – all the grit from their post-punk debut is pretty much gone. As much as I too wanna go see the otters and the water caterpillars, this subdued, instrumentally eclectic follow-up doesn't hold my attention. It lacks the visceral insistence on its being heard that New Long Leg had. Florence's grift of Sue Tompkins sounds even more obvious too. That having been said, there are plenty of redeeming qualities about Stumpwork: some of the songs are genuinely fun, albeit more in a conceptual than affective way. The single "Don't Press Me", while lacking development – the song structurally could built a bit better, and the mid-section guitar solo is just pathetic, truly – still sounds immediate and musically alive. Meanwhile, "Kwenchy Kups" is a lovely listen, but not a 2nd in the tracklisting fun, and begs the question of whether Shaw's deliberately flat timbre works (part of me imagines what Tompkins would do with the song), and "Icebergs" is actively weird in a good way; the only time that the disgusting chorus drenched guitars found across the album justify themselves sounding so meek.
Album Rating: 73.09
(804/11)
Dog sledge people lose their way slightly at the back end.
1.Anna Calls From The Arctic. 90
2.Kwenchy Kups. 73
3.Gary Ashby. 72
4.Driver's Story. 72
5.Hot Penny Day. 76.
6.Stumpwork. 68
7.No Decent Shoes For Rain. 73
8.Don't Press Me. 72
9.Conservative Hell. 72
10.Liberty Log. 68
11.Icebergs. 68
'Stumpwork', although not being quite as immediate as their debut effort, punches among a fine pantheon of records from UK post-rock bands this year such as Wet Leg, Yard Act and Porridge Radio.
Thew deapan vocal style may not be everyone's cup of tea but I like it and this album gets better with each listen
Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/13/2023 00:38 | #292774 | TOP COMMENT
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Unpopular opinion, ultimately this ones a bit of a snooze feast (cue down votes )
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