East India Youth: Culture of Volume - review

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Culture of Volume

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"The end result is not what was in mind," are the opening words of William Doyle's second album as East India Youth. What follows makes a virtue of unintended consequences.

The music is mercurial, similar in spirit to Doyle's Mercury Prize-nominated debut Total Strife Forever, but richer sounding and better structured. A spacey Moog synthesiser solo blossoms in a brooding Radiohead-style song, vocals channelling the Pet Shop Boys are themselves channelled into powerful krautrock, a fantastically dirty-sounding beat introduces a passage of pell-mell techno, and so on.

Doyle's rapt voice is rather samey but the law of unintended consequences holds true here too: his lack of vocal versatility isn't such a bad thing amid the busy musical action.

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