TOTAL STRIFE (VINYL)

East India Youth, aka William Doyle, releases his debut album "Total Strife Forever".


East India Youth can sound like a sweet slice of synth-pop one moment, before morphing into something dark and dangerous, only to gloriously ascend heavenwards, Doyle’s echo-laden vocals are prone to give way to beats, choral harmonies, anthemic choruses or even a church organ, before soaring on celestial synth melodies, Total Strife Forever ranges from ambient passages, through neo-classical episodes and Detroit techno through to effervescent melodic electronic pop songs, It’s an ambitious work and heralds the arrival of a singular new talent, Inspirations along the way included the output of Tim Hecker, Brian Eno and the orchestral/electronic combinations explored on Bjork's "Homogenic" and continued on Sufjan Stevens' "Age of Adz".