Its day four of our Mercury fact files, put out daily until the ceremony on 30 October. Heres all you need to know about William Doyle, the one-man sound machine and favourite of Brian Eno
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Who? Bournemouth-born artist William Doyle creates strange, structurally indefinable songs that are entirely self-produced. His first semi-public venture into music was in the post-Bluetones indie band Doyle & the Fourfathers, in which he honed his skills as a performer. After the band disintegrated, he started making music on his computer, music so impressive that John Doran of the Quietus started a label just so it could put out Doyles early songs. His ideas for the album were born out of a long year of isolation on the edges of north London in his late teens, and it was his debut as a coming-of-age record that, rather than blossoming with the buoyancy of youth, revitalises the boredom and monotony of a lonely life the end of the Central line. As Tim Jonze pointed out in a review, he may well be the first artist in the history of music to have used a Foals pun as an album title.
The album: Total Strife Forever
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