London band English Teacher have announced their debut album, This Could Be Texas, which will be out April 12 via Island Records. “I want this album to feel like you’ve gone to space and it turns out it’s almost identical to Doncaster,” says bandleader Lily Fontaine. “It’s about inbetweens, it’s about home, and it’s about Desire Paths.”
The album includes last year’s “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab,” “Nearly Daffodils,” and “Mastermind in Specialism,” and the new single is a lovely ballad titled “Albert Road.” Says Fontaine, “When people ask where I’m from I usually say I’m mixed race: half Yorkshire, half Lancashire. It allows me to divert with comedy from the potential connotations of that question, which change wildly depending on who’s asking it. One end of Albert Road in Colne (her hometown) is cold, underfunded and uninspiring; the other is warm at night with live music. It sums up how I look back on the place I lived for 19 years.” Watch the video for “Albert Road” below.
English Teacher will be on tour in the UK and Europe starting at the end of January. All dates are listed below.
This Could Be Texas
01 – Albatross
02 – The World’s Biggest Paving Slab
03 – Broken Biscuits
04 – I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying
05 – Mastermind Specialism
06 – This Could Be Texas
07 – Not Everybody Gets To Go To Space
08 – R&B
09 – Nearly Daffodils
10 – The Best Tears Of Your Life
11 – You Blister My Paint
12 – Sideboob
13 – Albert Road
English Teacher – 2024 Tour Dates
28th Jan – The Crescent, York
29th Jan – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
31st Jan – The Georgian Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees
1st Feb – Polar Bear, Hull
2nd Feb – Whereelse?, Margate
3rd Feb – Bedford Esquires, Bedford
8th Feb – L’Ubu, Rennes, FRA
9th Feb – Le Krakatoa, Mérignac, FRA
10th Feb – Point Éphémère, Paris, FRA
13th Feb – Cactus Club, Brugge, BEL
14th Feb – Trix, Antwerpen, BEL
17th Feb – Molotow, Hamburg, GER
18th Feb – Cassiopeia, Berlin, GER
20th Feb – Kranhalle, Munchen, GER
22nd Feb – Vera, Groningen, NL
23rd Feb – Rotown, Rotterdam, NL
24th Paradiso Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, NL
8th May – Concorde 2, Brighton
9th May – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
10th May – Thekla, Bristol
11th May – Clwb lfor Bach, Cardiff
13th May – The Bullingdon, Oxford
15th May – The Foundry, Sheffield
16th May – Irish Centre, Leeds
17th May – Mash House, Edinburgh
18th May – King Tuts, Glasgow
21st May – Ulster Sports Club, Belfast
22nd May – Whelans, Dublin
24th May – Gorilla, Manchester
25th May – Castle and Falcon, Birmingham
28th May – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
29th May – Electric Brixton, London