After last year’s Polyawkward EP and other excellent releases, the Leeds-based post-punk indie band return with a clever, sharp song with lyrics by frontwoman Lily Fontaine about the contradictions of growing up in Pendle, Lancashire. Having moved away, she uses the blunt, but also cutting slab metaphor to reflect on contradiction of social, economic and political problems, co-existing with the “beauty of the landscape and the characters that live within in it … this song tackles delusions of grandeur and inferiority from the perspective of a small town’s local celebrities. It’s split into two halves.”
To explore more by English Teacher, see also the other embedded links below. This is their first release via Island Records.
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
But no one can walk over me
I am the Pendle Witches, John Simm
And I am Lee Ingleby
I am the Bank of Dave, Golden Postbox
And the festival of R&B
I’m not the terrorist of Talbot Street
But I have apocalyptic dreams
You should see my armoury
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
So watch your fucking feet
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
But I sit here quietly
No one ever looks down at the ground
Yeah, no one ever notices me
I wish I were born a stone
And made Wycoller my home
Haunting with Charlotte Bronte
I’m not the terrorist of Talbot street
But I think that ruins have beauty
You should see my armoury
You should walk all over me
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
And the world’s smallest celebrity.
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