English Teacher have shared new single ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’.
The band have just signed to Island Records, and are working towards their debut album. Last year’s ‘Polyawkward’ EP was exceptional, matching surrealist word play to some excellent indie rock songwriting.
‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’ kicks off a fresh chapter, and it comes as English Teacher prepare for another lung-bursting UK tour in October. Out now, the new single hinges on that jagged guitar riff, with Lily Fontaine’s disarmingly funny lyricism tackling some key social issues.
Discussing economic and social isolation in semi-rural areas, ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’ is purely autobiographical in its sweep. Lily Fontaine comments…
“I wrote and recorded the demo in my bedroom in one day, during my final year of university in 2018. Moving to a city for university forced me to reflect on how my experience of growing up in and around Pendle, how witnessing the social, economic and political issues that exist around there in juxtaposition with the beauty of the landscape and the characters that live within in it, has shaped me into the artist and person that I am.”
“These semi-rural stories leak into most of my writing; in particular, this song tackles delusions of grandeur and inferiority from the perspective of a small town’s local celebrities. It’s split into two halves.”
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Tatiana Pozuelo
