William Doyle will release a new album this March.
Titled Great Spans Of Muddy Time, it follows on from 2019’s Your Wilderness Revisited, which was Doyle’s first release under his own name after two albums as East India Youth. The new album is preceded by lead track ‘And Everything Changed (But I Feel Alright)’, which you can listen to above.
"Like other favourite songs of mine, this arrived when I least expected it, almost fully formed," Doyle says of the track. "It’s partly a reaction to the complexity and excess of my last album. I wanted to get back into the craft of writing individual songs rather than being concerned with overarching concepts."
The wider album came about from the remnants of a hard-drive failure, with Doyle otherwise having only committed much of his work to cassette tape. He was subsequently forced to accept the recordings as they were – a departure from his process on past works.
"Instead of feeling a loss that I could no longer craft these pieces into flawless ‘works of art’, I felt intensely liberated that they had been set free from my ceaseless tinkering," Doyle says, going on to name artists such as Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Robyn Hitchcock and Syd Barrett as influences on the album.
Tough Love will release Great Spans Of Muddy Time on March 19, 2021.
