LISTEN: New William Doyle

William Doyle, formerly known as East India Youth, shares the second instalment of his Lightnesses project

Following on from the summer release of Lightnesses, William Doyle’s first full release away from his previous East India Youth project, he’s now shared a second volume of the series, naturally called Lightnesses II.

As with the previous instalment, the record is made up of two long-form, 30-minute ambient pieces, and you can check a video for one of the two pieces, ‘History of Change’, above. The video consists of a loop of a car’s tail lights illuminating a Joshua tree.

"This volume is darker in tone than the major keys of the first volume," Doyle says of Lightnesses II in comparison to the previous instalment. "A sense of a resolution that never quite arrives."

He continues: "I’d been keeping these aside for a release intended much further in the future, but very recently I found myself needing to revist the space these tracks put me in. It induced a sense of calm and warmth in me that I felt others could benefit from as the days in the northern hemisphere become colder."

You can check both tracks, as well as purchase them, here.

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