William Doyle

Having graduated from his early, Mercury Music Prize-nominated incarnation as East India Youth, William Doyle has since emerged under his own name as one of the most experimental and exciting British songwriters working today. His recent recordshave drawn comparisons to Radiohead and Brian Eno and claimed their place on end of year lists, with the Metro ranking 2019’s Your Wilderness Revisited as  “among the best albums of the century”. In 2024 he released Springs Eternal, his most ambitious, dynamic and immediate record yet.

Serving up art-pop for the anthropocene, Springs Eternal takes a panoramic view of the ecstasies and agonies of life in the 2020s,  asking how we exist as fragile flesh and blood – our hearts beating and our minds racing – in an unprecedented, almost unimaginable time of runaway climate destruction and technological expansion.

Across 11 tracks, we hear from narrators teetering on the precipice of global disaster, heartbreak, addiction, indoctrination and mental illness, until they pass into the great unknown. The lyrics, by turns earnest and ironic, upfront and allegorical, are paired with infectious melodies and often outright swagger. Co-produced by indie superproducer Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP) at his MESS studio in Margate, we hear the siren song of the sea washing around pulsating electronics and stirring instrumentation, featuring contributions from musicians Alexander Painter, Genevieve Dawson and Brian Eno.

Alongside his own output, Doyle recently produced Anna B Savage’s celebrated debut album A Common Turn (2021) and plays in Orlando Weeks’ band.

“Doyle’s ability to compose and fold together a particularly British pop history is both the attraction and infamy of his work – think a kind of Ableton Tarantino.” – The Quietus

“a singular master at work, bending form, lyricism and production to underline his prescient thesis.” – Loud & Quiet