East India Youth

East India Youth was the project of William Doyle, who began releasing music under the name in 2013. Doyle drew on kosmische musik, synth-pop, and ambient music in ways that felt both historically informed and genuinely contemporary. His debut album 'Total Strife Forever' (2014) on Stolen Recordings was an immediate critical success — a record of considerable ambition that announced him as one of the most interesting new voices in British electronic music.

'Total Strife Forever' (2014) was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, bringing Doyle to wider attention. The album's combination of motorik rhythms, emotional synth melodies, and moments of genuine grandeur was unlike most of what was happening in British indie at the time. 'Culture of Volume' (2015) followed, a more song-focused record that showed his range as a songwriter.

Doyle dissolved the East India Youth project after 'Culture of Volume' and subsequently released music under his own name, including 'Your Spirit or Your Skin' (2020) and 'Great Spans of Muddy Time' (2021). The East India Youth albums remain two of the most distinctive British electronic records of the 2010s, and Doyle is one of the more interesting figures in contemporary British music.