{"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. 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. The dizzyingly ambitious \u003ci\u003eYour Wilderness Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e arrived in 2019 and was followed last year by the artpop masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eGreat Spans of Muddy Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the years between leaving the old project behind and re-emerging under his own name, Doyle self-released a string of ambient-leaning albums, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Derealised, Lightnesses Vol I and II and Near Future Residence,\u003c\/i\u003e which now receive a first vinyl pressing via Tough Love as both a highly limited four LP box set, titled ‘Slowly Arranged: 2016-19’, and as separate albums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNear Future Residence\u003c\/i\u003e is music for an imagined place based on real ideas; the soundtrack for an ecologically sustainable housing development somewhere in a not-too-distant future Britain. The eleven instrumental pieces here come from a place of optimism, imagining a future that is based on cooperation, community and ecological urbanism. It's music intended to sit in this imagined environment rather than impose upon it, similar in principle to the function of Kankyō Ongaku (Japanese environmental music). The ideas contained on \u003ci\u003eNear Future Residence\u003c\/i\u003e laid the groundwork for - and can be seen as a companion piece to - the album \u003ci\u003eYour Wilderness Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e, released to critical acclaim in 2019. Doyle explains how the pieces “were composed in entirely generative ways using samples of instruments, synthesisers and field recordings I've collected and developed throughout 2018. In generative composition, rules are set and parameters are chosen and then put into motion, the results constantly changing and surprising.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tough Love","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50532275126603,"sku":"1160382","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1c29db1b-0670-42b2-b497-0e0803c0b0a6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728118375","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/near-future-residence","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}