““Not everybody gets a time to shine,” muses English Teacher’s Lily Fontaine on the suitably star-gazing ‘Not Everyone Gets To Go Space’ from their long-awaited debut ‘This Could Be Texas’. It’s a tongue-in-cheek line that also pragmatically lays out the logistical nightmare and societal issues that a free-at-the-point-of-delivery intergalactic travel system would create for us normies. A pretty pe”
“English Teacher’s daring adventures cumulate in the outstanding This Could Be Texas”
“A few songs into this debut album, when Lily Fontaine laments her perennial inability to pick a lane and stick to it on ‘Mastermind Specialism’, you get the feeling that she’s talking to a past version of herself. There’s no question that this gloriously topsy-turvy record from Leeds band English Teacher runs all over the musical map, but that sonic wanderlust turns out to be its biggest strength.”
“The Leeds quartet’s debut album captures a modern duality of feeling, alternating between blistering fury and lackadaisical resignation.”
“The UK band’s overstuffed debut melds indie-prog, rock, folk electronica, and post-punk into an expansive new sound.”
