In a rare case of a Grammy Award going to a truly weird, adventurous choice, Dry Cleaning have won the prize for Best Recording Package for the pube-adorned artwork from their 2022 album Stumpwork.
Dry Cleaning beat out fellow nominees the Arcs, Brad Breeck, Caroline Rose, Ensemble Cadenza 21' and Leaf Yeh to win the prize for Stumpwork — the package of which features the band's name written out in hair on a bar of soap. The art directors were Luke Brooks and James Theseus Buck.
Speaking with Exclaim! back in 2022, guitarist Tom Dowse said, "We actually encouraged them to make it more pubic, because it makes it more intimate."
He further explained, "The formal elements — the composition, the way it balanced the colour, everything — are beautiful. And it looked quite vulnerable and quite human, the detritus of the human body, human hair. It kind of made it more personal."
