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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Mercury nominees 2014: East India Youth

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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