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English Teacher are one of the UK 's most promising new guitar bands.
They beat pop stars Charli XCX and CMAT to win the Mercury Prize for their debut album.
The Leeds quartet have been voted in fifth place in BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025 poll.
They say the acclaim they've received so far doesn't feel real.
English Teacher's early songs gained an audience during the first wave of the Covid pandemic.
The band say they put "immense pressure" on themselves to perfect the record.
Record Collector Magazine called This Could Be Texas " one of the most confident and charismatic debuts in years " Mercury Prize judges said the band's lyrical mix of surrealism and social observation.
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