English Teacher’s Lily Fontaine shouts out her mum for debut album artwork on ‘This Could Be Texas’

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English Teacher‘s Lily Fontaine has given credits to her mother for the band’s debut album artwork on ‘This Could Be Texas’.The frontwoman took to social media to give the backstory on English Teacher’s debut album art, which was just released last Friday (April 12).

The band are currently on track to land in the Top Ten on the Official Charts this week.Writing on X/Twitter, Fontaine shared: “To feel understood potentially takes the number one spot in the chart of experiences.

The response to this thing we made has granted me that on a fascinatingly large scale and I’m basking.She went on to credit her mum Gilly for her support of the band, writing: “Shout out to my mum @gillyfgrist, West Yorkshire’s finest who not only understood more times than you can say um in the Houses of Parliament, but even when she didn’t understand, continued to support us anyway.” Fontaine is referring to the speech she gave Parliament in a session arguing for a £1 ticket levy on all arena gigs.Fontaine revealed that her mother also painted the album’s cover back in the 1980s, depicting Ilkley Moor’s Cow and Calf Rocks, named after a larger outcrop and a nearby boulder reminiscent of a cow and her calf: “Her work was a foundation of consistency throughout a childhood of relative displacement.”Finally, Fontaine shared that the central creature in the album was made by her, saying it represented the band “in that I don’t know what it is.

Some sort of musical meaty machine.”She concluded: “To the north and all its hills and valleys, to Mum, to my best three boys & to music x”https://t.co/Tu04qpwNub pic.twitter.com/gzhYQwC8Zz— Lily Fontaine (@sillyfontaine) April 15, 2024A post shared by English Teacher (@englishteacherband) English Teacher have.