Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past seven days is Great Spans Of Muddy Time, the latest post-East India Youth record from William Doyle – here’s your chance to revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify.
“The man formerly behind East India Youth, William Doyle’s first album under his own name, Your Wilderness Revisited, was one of 2019’s most off radar joys; a loosely threaded concept piece around themes such as adolescence, grief and erm…town planning, it seemed that only its creator’s lack of profile held it back from appearances on more best of lists.”
“Great Spans Of Muddy Time is not, however, so much a follow-up as an attempt to scratch well beneath the surface of its predecessor’s sincerity and charm.”
“Named after TV presenter Monty Don’s description of his feelings towards depression, Doyle uses it to deliberately step back from uniformity and polish, rejecting the ‘ceaseless tinkering’ he’d indulged in in times past.”
“Losing the comfort blanket of having just another edit was also partly by fate; when his hard drive failed the only way to proceed was by using material which had been transferred already to tape.”
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