News East India Youth

: East India Youth
Based: London
Listen: ‘Heaven, How Long’
Similar to: Owen Pallett

22-year-old multi-instrumentalist William Doyle is no stranger to making music. Having previously starred as the frontrunner of Doyle and the Fourfathers, Doyle and his band of merrymen played a brash, in-your-face style of laddish pub rock that anyone who’s been to their local on a Friday night will undoubtedly be accustomed to. But now he’s playing under the guise of East India Youth; trading in his musical parka for a signature – yet subtle – Dalston look that has far more substance and style than your average hipster.

He’s got quite the weight on his shoulders too: the originally Bournemouth-based man is the first signing to The Quietus Phonographic Corporation, the fresh-out-of-the-box record label of – you guessed it – The Quietus. They’ll be releasing his debut EP ‘Hostel’ on the 25th March, and it’s going to be tough (but exciting nonetheless) to narrow down what to expect. Others are on the mark when they describe him as difficult to pigeonhole; his tracks vary so much in style you can almost guarantee the next one emerging to be dabbling in something new.

There’s the bubbly, synth-pop floater ‘Dripping Down’, a track which bounces on a tip-toeing drum beat and an almost ethereal like quality in its silky melody (making it the perfect choice for a radio breakthrough). But making radio-friendly tunes isn’t at all what Doyle is constrained to: ‘Song For A Granular Piano’ is a brooding, classically-indebted singer-songwriter track caped in mystery whilst ‘Heaven, How Long’ is a beautiful piece of progressive electronica, flirting with krautrock before soaring into an infectiously memorable chorus.

With so many ideas in his head forming such clear paths with each individual track he produces, it’s again hard to say what to expect from the ‘Hostel’ EP. What we can know for sure, though, is that it’ll be thoroughly immersive and undoubtedly one of the more memorable electronic releases to emerge so far this year. Get excited, folks.



William plays the following UK dates:

MARCH:
06 - Shacklewell Arms, London
12 - Kraak, Manchester
16 - Birthdays, Dalston w/ Molly Nilsson
22 - Roundhouse, London
31 - Abattoir at White Rabbit, London