William Doyle - Great Spans of Muddy Time

Released 19th March 2021.

Its nearly a decade since William Doyle handed a CD-R demo to the Quietus co-founder John Doran at a gig, who loved it so much he set up a label to release Doyles debut EP (as East India Youth). Doyles debut album, Total Strife Forever, followed in 2014, as did a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize. A year later, he was signed to XL, touring the world and about to release his second album all by the age of 25.

After self-releasing four ambient and instrumental albums, Doyles third full-length record and the first under his own name Your Wilderness Revisited arrived to ecstatic reviews in 2019: Line of Best Fit described it as a dazzlingly beautiful triumph of intention and Metro declared it an album not only of the year, but of the century. Just over a year later, as he turns 30, Doyle is back with Great Spans of Muddy Time.

Born from accident but driven forward by instinct, Great Spans was b