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A year later, he was signed to XL, touring the world and about to release his second album – all by the age of 25.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAfter self-releasing four ambient and instrumental albums, Doyle’s third full-length record – and the first under his own name – Your Wilderness Revisited arrived to ecstatic reviews in 2019: Line of Best Fit described it as “a dazzlingly beautiful triumph of intention” and Metro declared it an album not only of the year, but “of the century”. Just over a year later, as he turns 30, Doyle is back with Great Spans of Muddy Time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The album this turned out to be – and that I’ve wanted to make for ages – is a kind of Englishman-gone-mad, scrambling around the verdancy of the country’s pastures looking for some sense,” says Doyle. “It has its seeds in Robert Wyatt, early Eno, Robyn Hitchcock, and Syd Barrett.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tough Love","offers":[{"title":"White | LP","offer_id":50465314799947,"sku":"1116843","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50465315225931,"sku":"1111626","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50465315520843,"sku":"1111625","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/73b58681-4de0-4f5c-9918-93f35ea21015_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727285904"},{"product_id":"springs-eternal","title":"Springs Eternal","description":"\u003cp\u003eServing up art-pop for the anthropocene, \u003ci\u003eSprings Eternal\u003c\/i\u003e is the Mercury-nominated, critically acclaimed artist William Doyle’s most ambitious and most playful creation to date. Taking a panoramic view of the ecstasies and agonies of life in the 2020s, the record asks 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSprings Eternal\u003c\/i\u003e presents a strange and thrilling cast of characters – from cowboys to castaways – who just might be Doyle, once or twice removed. “Most of the songs are in the first-person, but rather than being autobiographical, I was trying to imagine hyperreality versions of myself,” Doyle says. “What if decisions I made in my life had resulted in the self of each particular song? How many degrees of separation am I from those realities? It’s a frightening thought, and frightening thoughts often make for good songs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA recurring theme of water and flooding runs through the record, alluding simultaneously to the global climate crisis and the deluge of overwhelm these parallel-universe Williams are experiencing. “It wasn’t until we were mixing the record that I realised how many water references there are,” Doyle says. “I guess there’s a fluid border between our inner selves and the outside world that allows things to flood in, in unstoppable or perhaps irresistible ways.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSprings Eternal\u003c\/i\u003e is the next chapter in the William Doyle sonic odyssey that began with his incarnation as East India Youth (\u003ci\u003eTotal Strife Forever,\u003c\/i\u003e 2014; \u003ci\u003eCulture of Volume\u003c\/i\u003e, 2015) and developed under his own name, producing the critically acclaimed records \u003ci\u003eYour Wilderness Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eGreat Spans of Muddy Time\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). Alongside his own output, Doyle recently produced Anna B Savage’s celebrated debut album \u003ci\u003eA Common Turn\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and plays in Orlando Weeks’ band both live and on his upcoming record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Brian Eno, Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Wyatt, Euros Childs, Cleaners from Venus\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tough Love","offers":[{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50530010136907,"sku":"2177230","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50530009710923,"sku":"2167540","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/William_Doyle_-_Springs_Eternal_-_Cover_32ef9e0e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728070299"},{"product_id":"the-dream-derealised","title":"The Dream Derealised","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s nearing a decade since William Doyle released his Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album, \u003ci\u003eTotal Strife Forever,\u003c\/i\u003e as East India Youth in 2014. 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What I told myself at the time, what I can tell you now: You are not in danger. You are not going insane. You are not alone.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tough Love","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50532269850955,"sku":"1160380","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/20c02e18-95fe-48af-9d8c-a4dbf3496632_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728118192"},{"product_id":"lightnesses-i-and-ii","title":"Lightnesses I and II","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s nearing a decade since William Doyle released his Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album, \u003ci\u003eTotal Strife Forever,\u003c\/i\u003e as East India Youth in 2014. A year later, he had toured the world and was releasing his second album, \u003ci\u003eCulture of Volume\u003c\/i\u003e, but it would be another four years before Doyle returned with his third full album, and the first official release under his own name. 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The deceptively simple, droning pieces are unlike anything Doyle has made before or since. “During their creation I’d often take photographs of the light coming in through the windows of the two houses I lived in during their creation. I’d post these on social media and they became quite popular parts of my output. This music was intended to accompany those visuals. The first volume’s photo is a double exposure of the sun shining in on my notebook and my hand, whereas the photo for the second volume was taken in Joshua Tree Park, California as I saw our tail lights illuminate one of the trees.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tough Love","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50532270276939,"sku":"1160381","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/00da3d8c-3406-4bc0-9b88-6897867d06c5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728118213"},{"product_id":"near-future-residence","title":"Near Future Residence","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s nearing a decade since William Doyle released his Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album, \u003ci\u003eTotal Strife Forever,\u003c\/i\u003e as East India Youth in 2014. 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