William Doyle aka East India Youth’s debut album ‘TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER’ brings together glorious orchestral pop, noise and motorik Detroit techno, threaded together with ambient and contemporary classical passages.
Described by Pitchfork as “a heart-spinning, utterly exhilarating supernova” and The Guardian – whose Breakthrough of 2014 list East India Youth topped – as “a hugely self-assured debut from an artist who knows exactly what he’s doing, marking Doyle out as a rare, idiosyncratic talent”, the crescendo of East India Youth’s year came in October when he was shortlisted for The Mercury Music Prize, alongside FKA Twigs, Anna Calvi, Royal Blood and Damon Albarn.
