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  • Summary: The debut full-length release from British indie/post-punk band English Teacher was produced by Marta Salogni.
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  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
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  1. Apr 10, 2024
    100
    The picture it paints as a whole is a hugely rich one - not just of the album itself, but of English Teacher as the opposite of a flash-in-the-pan buzz band; as a group really only just getting started.
  2. 100
    What you have in ‘This Could Be Texas’ is everything you want from a debut; a truly original effort from start to finish, an adventure in sound and words, and a landmark statement.
  3. Apr 10, 2024
    100
    It’s a debut album full of confidence, heart and ambition, with songs that sound both instantly familiar and also like nothing you’ve ever heard before.
  4. 80
    Even if you don’t love This Could Be Texas, it’s a hard album not to respect. English Teacher have well and truly arrived: the class had better pay attention.
  5. Mojo
    May 14, 2024
    80
    All quite stunning. [Jul 2024, p.92]
  6. Apr 12, 2024
    80
    With This Could Be Texas, Leeds-based quartet English Teacher have crafted a record really quite striking in its lyrical and sonic ambition.
  7. Apr 25, 2024
    74
    English Teacher can’t leave a song alone: Not a track goes by without a twist or complication, whether a time-signature change, an instrumental flourish, or a sudden wall of sound. .... Most promising, and core to This Could Be Texas, is the band’s interest in melding indie-prog, rock, folk electronica, and post-punk into a new package.

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