Dry Cleaning’s a little overdue for a proper US tour.

The London post-punk band — with Florence Shaw on vocals, Tom Dowse on guitar, Lewis Maynard on bass, and Nick Buxton on drums — spent the last three years relentlessly touring for the 2022 Grammy-winning (for best recording package) album “Stumpwork” and past EPs.

But when it came time to arrange a tour to promote their latest effort, “Secret Love,” the path overseas wasn’t so straightforward. The North American leg of the tour was initially scheduled for this January and February, but after the band’s US visas were delayed in late 2025, they postponed the dates; expediting the visas would’ve added detrimental expenses to an already large touring operation. Dry Cleaning shared the news in a December social media post, citing “increasingly hostile economic forces that govern touring in the present day” as a primary reason for the postponement.

The band visits the Paradise Rock Club on Tuesday – which was not a stop on the original tour – with material from “Secret Love.” The band’s new Cate Le Bon-produced project captures the band’s trademark features — notably the typically spoken-word vocals, which border on ASMR — as well as some new instrumental wrinkles and more singing from Shaw.

Ahead of the Boston show, Dry Cleaning spoke with the Globe about “Secret Love,” advice from Duran Duran, and their songwriting process.

Q. In the three years prior to “Secret Love,” you were touring “Stumpwork,” opening for Nick Cave, and had the Grammys win as well. How did that period treat you all?

Shaw: Mixed bag. We did a ton of touring, and then we had a couple of months off.

Maynard: It’s worth noting the the little break we took kind of came from Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran. He told us we should take a break because no one in your team’s ever gonna tell you to take a break. We didn’t realize we could request to take a break.

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Q. How did Cate Le Bon impact the recording process of “Secret Love”?

Dowse: We had a lot of songs that we were sort of like, “Oh, this really needs a producer’s hand to edit this.” She would say, “No, it’s fine.” You don’t think that’s being pushed out of your comfort zone, but it is. You sort of think, “Always do more and more and more, better and better and better,” and you overlook what’s [already] there.

Q. Florence, some of what I picked up on lyrically was that you can feel the vitriol toward the way the world is going, but there also appears to be a strong embrace of forcing positive thinking.

Shaw: A lot of times when I’m writing, I’m not really consciously aware of a pool of thoughts that I’m pulling from. Later, I can see the ideas.  But definitely some of the things that influence the emotional qualities of the lyrics are, I suppose, some practical things.  

We did quite a lot of writing in rooms where you couldn’t really hear the vocals that well,  just because of the dynamics of the band.  I wouldn’t be literally writing out loud, and for that reason it felt pretty private, and it felt like a good opportunity to write more sensitively.

 I definitely see a world weariness, which I think is a constant vibe, but also a cheerful resignation of some kind.

Q. Did you go into this process consciously knowing you wanted to sing more [on “Secret Love”]?

Shaw: It happened that way because I was doing a lot of writing in quite an unheard way. It was just a good environment to try singing in, because it was so private.

I’d already started doing that, and then we were playing some records in a bar in Austin. This guy came up and he goes, “You should sing more, ’cause I like your singing voice.” It came at a moment where I was trying to decide whether it was working well or not, and a random guy said that he thought it would be cool if I did that. So then I thought, “OK, I’m going to try and make it work.”

Dowse: Which is not open invitation just to come and tell us what you want us to do.

Shaw: Yeah. The others [in the band] won’t do it. I’ll do what people tell me to do.

Interview was edited for length and clarity.

DRY CLEANING

With YHWH Nailgun. At the Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Tuesday, May 5, 7 p.m. Tickets $39. crossroadspresents.com