'Springs Eternal', the new album, out 16th February 2024 💦 🐟

Listen to new single 'Relentless Melt' now...

PRE-ORDER VINYL, CD, DIGITAL HERE

It’s been a long time coming, but today I am very happy to announce that my next album ‘Springs Eternal’ will be released on the 16th February 2023, a mere 93 days away at the time of writing! You can pre-order it now, here.

You can listen to the newest single ‘Relentless Melt’ here, or at the Youtube link below.

I’ll attach some ‘official’ text about it below, but suffice it to say I am very proud of this record that I made, and I am very grateful to Mike Lindsay who helped produce it with me and make it into the highly playful living organism that it is. I also would like to thank Alexander Painter once again for his extremely expert contributions on cello, saxophone, clarinet and vocals, Genevieve Dawson for her wonderful voice giving so much more depth to some of these songs, and Brian Eno for bringing the rhythm when it was needed, beyond all the other indirect help and influence he’s given over the years.

Thanks also to Jonathan Vallance at studio dough (website coming soon, I hear), for the amazing work on the artwork and design of this whole thing.

To the true legend Parri Thomas for the photographs.

To Stephen and Natalie at Tough Love Records for getting this thing over the line.

To Will at Practise Music for all the support and constant drive when my drive was totally depleted.

All of these people are wonderful.

I’m also very excited to announce there will be a UK tour in March next year. Tickets will go on sale this Friday. Dates below!

20th March - Portland Arms, Cambridge

21st March - Where Else? Margate

23rd March - Ritual Union, Bristol

24th March - Deaf Institute, Manchester

27th March - Bodega Social, Nottingham

28th March - Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh

29th March - The Wardrobe, Leeds

30th March - Gan Yam Brew Co, Kendal

3rd April - Lafayette, London

There’s also a Brighton date to add to this - stay tuned for further announcements, Brightonians.

More to say, and soon…! Much love x

Serving up art-pop for the anthropocene, Springs Eternal is the Mercury-nominated, critically acclaimed artist William Doyle’s most ambitious and most playful creation to date. Taking a panoramic view of the ecstasies and agonies of life in the 2020s, the record asks how we exist as fragile flesh and blood – our hearts beating and our minds racing – in an unprecedented, almost unimaginable time of runaway climate destruction and technological expansion.

Springs Eternal presents a strange and thrilling cast of characters – from cowboys to castaways – who just might be Doyle, once or twice removed. “Most of the songs are in the first-person, but rather than being autobiographical, I was trying to imagine hyperreality versions of myself,” Doyle says. “What if decisions I made in my life had resulted in the self of each particular song? How many degrees of separation am I from those realities? It’s a frightening thought, and frightening thoughts often make for good songs.”

Across 11 tracks, we hear from narrators teetering on the precipice of global disaster, heartbreak, addiction, indoctrination and mental illness, until they pass into the great unknown. The lyrics, by turns earnest and ironic, upfront and allegorical, are paired with infectious melodies and often outright swagger. Co-produced by indie superproducer Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP) at his MESS studio in Margate, we hear the siren song of the sea washing around pulsating electronics and stirring instrumentation, featuring contributions from musicians Alexander Painter, Genevieve Dawson and Brian Eno.

A recurring theme of water and flooding runs through the record, alluding simultaneously to the global climate crisis and the deluge of overwhelm these parallel-universe Williams are experiencing. “It wasn’t until we were mixing the

record that I realised how many water references there are,” Doyle says. “I guess there’s a fluid border between our inner selves and the outside world that allows things to flood in, in unstoppable or perhaps irresistible ways.”

Springs Eternal is the next chapter in the William Doyle sonic odyssey that began with his incarnation as East India Youth (Total Strife Forever, 2014; Culture of Volume, 2015) and developed under his own name, producing the critically acclaimed records Your Wilderness Revisited (2019) and Great Spans of Muddy Time (2021). Alongside his own output, Doyle recently produced Anna B Savage’s celebrated debut album A Common Turn (2021) and plays in Orlando Weeks’ band both live and on his upcoming record.