Your Wilderness Revisited
This album has been rattling inside of me for over 10 years now. When I left the suburb I spent my entire teenage life in, I started to think back to it and notice the influence it had on me, on my art, and on my development as a person. The architecture and the planning of the modern British suburb influenced this album as much as the experiences and emotions I superimposed upon that landscape at a formative age. I started creating in these places, I started to expand myself in these places, I grappled with grief and loss in these places. I realised that I wouldn’t be alone in having these experiences here, and so I thought there should be a way of redefining or reimagining these places that painted a different picture of them in our collective consciousness. These weren’t just places to escape to the nearest city from – perhaps they held as much truth and beauty in them as anywhere else. This album is, in part, an interrogation and excavation of that truth and beauty. This album is dedicated in memory to my father Martin Doyle and my friend Ben Clark The long few years this album took to complete were survived only through the love and support of the following people: Rory Bligh, Charlotte Gush, Ryan MacPhail, Tida Bradshaw, Luke Turner, John Doran, Sapphire Goss, Matt Colquhoun, John Parry, Karl Henson, John Thorp, Tom Brain, Danny Kelly, Elizabeth Mutter, Conor Flannery, Chris Machell, Katherine Farrimond, Andy Inglis, Tristan Williams, Rachael Patterson, Joe Spray, Molly O’Brien, Amy Morgan, Ed Horrox, Fabian Prynn, and everyone at Beggars, Adam Saunders, Chris Duncan, Tanya Palaci, Joe Osborne and the team at The Orchard, Helen Ganya Brown, Erland Cooper, Jack Found, Jo Rendle, Alex Painter, Will Burgess, Sinead Mills, Ben Ayres, Nick Carling, Ashiya Eastwood, David Cross, Freya Edmondson, Emily-Clare McCallum, Rebecca Perry, Amy Key, Karl Smith, Laurie Tuffrey, Pete Darlington, Tony Njoku, Laura Misch, Sophie Paterson, Sophia Struszczyk, Rachel Poxon, Rick Holland, Cindy Sharman, the Brothers Horton: Nick, Phil and Chris, Bee Horton, my Mum, Trev, my sisters Stephanie and Amy and their wonderful families. A special thanks to - George Hider for his belief, generosity, talent and invaluable assistance Brian Eno for his contribution, encouragement and many years of direct and indirect influence Jonathan Meades for his contribution, help, and guidance through the best free show on Earth
FKA East India Youth, Doyle finds beauty in banality on wonderful new LP
William Doyle's first album under his own name (his third including East India Youth) sees him revisit his suburban youth.