Take heed to English Trainer’s seething new single ‘R&B’

English Trainer have dropped their seething new single ‘R&B’.

The post-punk band have shared the most recent track from their upcoming album ‘This May Be Texas‘, due out April 12 through Island. ‘R&B’ was beforehand launched in 2021, and has been re-recorded for his or her new document.

Frontwoman Lily Fontaine has mentioned this single is a couple of former associate: “After I was with him I had author’s block and so as to add insult to irony, the one concept I had was for an R&B prime line – the style individuals at all times assumed I labored in.

“As quickly as he ended it, I transformed that prime line into the lyrics and riff for ‘R&B,’ and took it to my three finest mates. Placing the hassle that you would probably put right into a associate, again into your self and your profession, is cool and attractive and will get you signed to Island Information and writing press quotes in a tour van in Holland and also you get to fulfill Jools Holland. Thanks lad.”

Take a hearken to ‘R&B’ beneath.

Fontaine additionally opened up concerning the single in NME‘s Cowl story with English Trainer. “There are occasions after I nonetheless fear about how we’re seen as a band,” she mentioned. “I at all times used to consider how we began to achieve consideration for our music across the identical time because the George Floyd protests, and I used to be frightened that individuals thought that the one purpose we had been getting any help was as a result of I’m not white. I do know that the expertise is there – we’re not only a range choose. I needed to unlearn that earlier mindset.”

The band have beforehand launched ‘Albert Street‘, ‘Mastermind Specialism’, ‘Almost Daffodils’ and ‘The World’s Greatest Paving Slab’ in anticipation of their new document. English Trainer have teased that ‘This May Be Texas’ appears like “you’ve gone to area and it seems it’s nearly equivalent to Doncaster. It’s about inbetweens, it’s about house, and it’s about Need Paths.”

In different information, English Trainer have spoken about being ambassadors for Impartial Venue Week 2024, citing the significance of venues equivalent to Leeds Brudenell for up-and-coming bands.

“The Brude is the prime instance as a result of it’s the place all of us studied and located our scene,” mentioned Fontaine. “It’s the cultural centre for the music scene. It’s the place you meet the type of people that simply present up as a result of it’s the place the great music is, and the individuals who make that occur.

“It’s the place bands are began and the place everybody desires to play, but in addition the place individuals wish to drink simply because it’s the place you have to be. It’s the principle purpose I can’t transfer out of Leeds as a result of I like it a lot.”