Dorset-born William Doyle formerly performed as East India Youth – a name derived from the area of East London where he lived when he started writing and recording music.

His debut album ‘Total Strife’, was released in 2013 by Stolen Recordings, and brought him to wider attention when it was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Music Prize and for ‘Independent Album of the Year’ at the 2014 AIM Independent Music Awards. Signing with XL Recordings in 2015, he released his second album ‘Culture of Volume’, which received critical acclaim, including a glowing 5-star review in The Guardian.

Taking a hiatus from the East India Youth moniker since 2016, Doyle has continued to release music under his own name, including the 2016 ambient album ‘the dream derealised’, which were created and recorded as a means of focus, during a period of anxiety, panic and dissociative episodes called ‘derealisation’.

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