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One to watch: English Teacher
The Leeds band fuse dreampop, psychedelia and emo-rock with smart, fresh songwriting and tender moments
The four-piece met at Leeds Conservatoire, played their first gigs in 2020, and are about to release their promising debut album, This Could Be Texas, on the same major label as the Last Dinner Party. Sure, they may have the suitably arch band name, wiry melodies and wry song titles (Sideboob, The Best Tears of Your Life) that are mandatory among post-punkers, but equally, English Teacher are attempting to create their own lane. Their music encompasses collegiate emo-rock, dreampop and psychedelia, and they contrast the landscape of the north with social, economic and political observations – as on terrific breakthrough track The World’s Biggest Paving Slab.
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