Fresh from wowing Hot Press at Eurosonic – read just how good they were at https://www.hotpress.com/music/english-teacher-chubby-cat-and-expresso-transatlantic-bring-eurosonic-to-a-rousing-close-23003477 Leeds buzz band English Teacher have confirmed the April 12 release of their debut This Could Be Texas album with some seriously tasty pre-order bundles available from https://shop.englishteacherband.com

It includes ace new single 'Albert Road', a pean to lead singer Lily Fontaine's hometown, which starts off all wistful and reflective and ends in a symphony of noise.

“When people ask where I’m from I usually say I’m mixed race: half-Yorkshire, half-Lancashire”, she says of the song. “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 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.”

As for This Could Be Texas, “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 in-betweens, it’s about home, and it’s about Desire Paths.”

Catch them when they cross the Irish Sea for dates in Ulster Sports Club, Belfast (May 21) and Whelan's, Dublin (22).

Here's their May tour in full:

08 Brighton, Concorde 2
09 Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
10 Bristol, Thekla
11 Cardiff, Clwb lfor Bach
13 Oxford, The Bullingdon
15 Sheffield, The Foundry
16 Leeds, Irish Centre
17 Edinburgh, Mash House
18 Glasgow, King Tut's
21 Belfast, Ulster Sports Club
22 Dublin, Whelan's
24 Manchester, Gorilla
25 Birmingham, Castle and Falcon
28 Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
29 London, Electric Brixton