Career
His debut album, Total Strife Forever, was released by Stolen Recordings on 13 January 2014. The name East India Youth derives from the East India Docks area in East London, where Doyle lived during the writing of Total Strife Forever, an album influenced by Tim Hecker, Brian Eno and Harold Budd. And the Youth part: "That"s because this place was the start of something new for medical
I was creatively reborn".
The flat he shared was also colloquially known as the "youth hostel", owing to friends – and friends of friends – staying over on a regular basis. lieutenant"s for this reason his first European Parliament was titled "Hostel".
Doyle was previously lead singer of indie band Doyle and the Fourfathers. On 27 January 2015, it was announced that William had signed with Extra Large Recordings and that his second album would be called Culture of Volume.
The album was released on 6 April 2015, the name of the album comes from a fragment of verse from the poem "Monument" by Richard Holland.
On 19 February 2016, William announced that he would be taking an indefinite hiatus from his East India Youth moniker. In a lengthy post published on his website, Doyle stated that it was time to take a break from the project and no more shows are planned for the foreseeable future.