His time in the Mercury-nominated East Indie Youth now well behind him, William Doyle’s solo career has been a lesson in staying in the margins whilst still producing cerebral pop; debut release Your Wilderness Revisited especially underlined a singular British writing talent.
Much of his work has come from lived experience, even if thinly veiled. Springs Eternal draws on the current doomy meta for inspiration, simultaneously moving into more experimental territory, the grainy ambience of A Long Life and opener Garden of Morning’s symphonic heights each opposite ends of a continuously growing creative spectrum.
Whilst Surrender Yourself and Relentless Melt – the album thematically revolves around suggestions of water and flooding – are more orthodox, Springs Eternal‘s highest wave is found on Soft To The Touch, an aching sort of ballad which is never content to be still and as close to peaking inside Doyle’s mind as a stranger will get. Never becalmed, his fascinating journey continues.
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