English Teacher Announce Debut Album 'This Could Be Texas', Share New Track Albert Road
Friday, 19 January 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Tatiana Pozuelo
English Teacher have laid out plans for their debut album.
’This Could Be Texas’ is scheduled for release through Island Records on April 12 and will feature the Leeds quartet’s new single, Albert Road, a poignant ballad. Vocalist Lily Fontaine said:
"I want this album to feel like you’ve gone to space and it turns out it’s almost identical to Doncaster. It’s about inbetweens, it’s about home, and it’s about Desire Paths."
In several songs, the singer looks back on growing up as a mixed-race person in a place, "where many didn’t have any tolerance towards people who are different," in a post-Brexit landscape.
Head below to view the new song’s accompanying video, which was directed by Douglas Frost and Sarah Oglesby at Sodium Films. It was filmed in Leeds’ own The Cardigan Arms.
The band will hit the road later this month for a run of shows as part of Independent Venue Week. In the spring, they’ll embark on a headline UK tour in support of the LP. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on January 26.
They’ll also play BBC 6 Music Festival, Bearded Theory and Boardmasters.
’This Could Be Texas’ tracklist:
1. Albatross
2. The World’s Biggest Paving Slab
3. Broken Biscuits
4. I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying
5. Mastermind Specialism
6. This Could Be Texas
7. Not Everybody Gets To Go To Space
8. R&B
9. Nearly Daffodils
10. The Best Tears Of Your Life
11. You Blister My Paint
12. Sideboob
13 - Albert Road
English Teacher Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sun January 28 2024 - YORK Crescent Community Venue
Mon January 29 2024 - HEBDEN BRIDGE Trades Club
Wed January 31 2024 - BATH Moles
Thu February 01 2024 - HULL Polar Bear Music Club
Fri February 02 2024 - MARGATE Where Else The Centre
Sat February 03 2024 - BEDFORD Bedford Esquires
Wed May 08 2024 - BRIGHTON Concorde 2
Thu May 09 2024 - PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
Fri May 10 2024 - BRISTOL Thekla
Sat May 11 2024 - CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
Mon May 13 2024 - OXFORD Bullingdon
Wed May 15 2024 - SHEFFIELD Foundry
Thu May 16 2024 - LEEDS Leeds Irish Centre
Fri May 17 2024 - EDINBURGH Mash House
Sat May 18 2024 - GLASGOW King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
Tue May 21 2024 - BELFAST Ulster Sports Club
Wed May 22 2024 - DUBLIN Whelans
Fri May 24 2024 - MANCHESTER Gorilla
Sat May 25 2024 - BIRMINGHAM Castle and Falcon
Tue May 28 2024 - NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
Wed May 29 2024 - LONDON Electric Brixton
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