Total Strife Forever

William Doyle who records under the evocative name of East India Youth presents his debut LP Total Strife Forever, encapsulating a plethora of musical styles to create a bold and inventive record. You'll find plenty of comparisons in each different song, on this track Dripping Down the obvious similarities with Friendly Fires and Foals at the forefront, while adding choral flourishes.

Elsewhere the LP takes on diverse genres from emotional electronica to pulsating techno bangers and alt-folk to shoegaze dream pop, combining the polar-opposite styles to make something quite unique. The experimental edge takes many risks, but so often pulled off to perfection taking the listener on an exciting journey at every turn. The whole album has a soundtrack feel to an unmade movie. The experimentalism of Brian Eno and emotional style of James Blake or the alternative spirit of Youth Lagoon resinates here and there, throughout each track many influences can be heard reassembled in an stunningly exquisite fashion, creating unclassifiable form of experimental pop. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.