William Doyle To Take A Break From East India Youth
Friday, 19 February 2016
Written by Huw Baines
William Doyle has confirmed that he is to take a break from East India Youth.
Having put out ‘Total Strife Forever’ and ‘Culture of Volume’ in quick succession, and toured extensively, he intends to step away from the project for some time.
Check out his statement on the decision here, and read an excerpt below.
Although TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER came out in January 2014, the lion’s share of work on the album was mostly completed back in August 2012 and then the sessions for CULTURE OF VOLUME – which came out in April 2015 – started immediately after that. This is why the two albums came out so close to each other, but in actuality about two years worth of work was done on each before they were ready for wider consumption. As such, these periods of creativity and promotion have fed and bled into each other to the point where I find it hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. I’ve been to so many places and met so many people in this time that it’s hard to truly comprehend and remain calm about it. So perhaps it’s time for a break.
We’ve no more shows planned, now that the brilliant Laneway Festival tour is over, and I’ve taken the decision to keep it that way for the foreseeable future. I have nothing new to offer on stage right now and I want to go away for a while and think about how to repurpose my work for new audiences and to create new challenges for myself. I don’t mind being honest with you in saying that I have mixed feelings about how the last year has gone. There are plenty of things I would change about some of the things that I’ve done, but ultimately I’m glad that I am able to sit here with this perspective now and see how that may shape what I end up doing next. There seems to be a pressure on artists to consistently offer up very definitive gestures and make large sweeping statements with each release. We are not faultless and we shouldn’t pretend to be. The music world especially is often not an environment that allows the artist to be critical of their own work and learn from it, and so it’s important that – when necessary – we can throw up our hands and say “Sure. It didn’t work. Let’s try something else.” Making mistakes is the job of the artist, for this is where the growth occurs, and so a break for me is imperative to take stock of where I think or I’ve been shown to have gone wrong. I need to be out of the headspace and the suit-space of EIY for a while, to learn about myself again, and I’m keen to do some work with others in the meantime
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