“Leeds four-piece who won the Mercury Prize turning post-punk into fifty minutes of literary shape-shifting — cost-of-living crisis, structural prejudice, and structural complexity in the same breath.”
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Curatorial notes
English Teacher formed in Leeds around 2019 when vocalist and guitarist Lily Fontaine, alongside guitarist Lewis Whiting, bassist Douglas Frost, and drummer Emil Vincent, began making songs that refused to settle. Their early Nice Swan Records releases — the 2021 single R&B and the 2022 Polyawkward EP — established the signature immediately: literary, self-aware lyrics delivered over angular...
