English TeacherBest English Teacher Albums Ranked

This Could Be Texas

nme

10

““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”

This Could Be Texas

thelineofbestfit

9.0

“English Teacher’s daring adventures cumulate in the outstanding This Could Be Texas”

This Could Be Texas

loudandquiet

9.0

“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.”

This Could Be Texas

pastemagazine

7.7

“The Leeds quartet’s debut album captures a modern duality of feeling, alternating between blistering fury and lackadaisical resignation.”

This Could Be Texas

pitchfork

7.4

“The UK band’s overstuffed debut melds indie-prog, rock, folk electronica, and post-punk into an expansive new sound.”