ENGLISH TEACHER

THIS COULD BE TEXAS

FRASER LEWRY

(Island Records 2024) It’s possible the news passed you by, but a prog band won the Mercury Prize last year. It’s possible you caught their twee, unambitious, nothing-to-see-here band name (see also: Dry Cleaning, Wet Leg, etc.) and decided not to explore further. It’s possible you thought they were part of that ever-growing, NME-friendly, modern English post-punk glut (see also: Dry Cleaning, Wet Leg etc) and dismissed them as cookie-cutter. It’s possible you weren’t really paying attention. But English Teacher, whose debut album This Could Be Texas walked away with the prize, are about as progressive as it gets. Anyone unconvinced by that opening paragraph is advised to ease their way in with track nine. Nearly Daffodils comes together quickly, kicking off like a Disney version of Neu!, with Nicholas…

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