Album Review: East India Youth - Total Strife Forever

Lead singer of Doyle & The Fourfathers, William Doyle replaced his bandmates with a laptop, guitar and keyboard, and retreated to his bedroom to experiment. Three years later he emerges victorious as East India Youth with this album of exquisitely layered electronica that shifts from moments of lushly orchestrated neo-classicism to intimate pop songs and brutally futuristic Detroit tech. As East India Youth connects the dots between a range of influences he deals some sophisticated synthetic orchestral arrangements and delves deeply into laptop production, leaving trashy electro contemporaries in the dust.