Daniel Dylan Wray , March 17th, 2021 10:10 Ahead of his excellent latest album, Great Spans of Muddy Time, William Doyle - fka East India Youth, whose debut EP was first ever record released on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation - talks us through his Baker’s Dozen. William Doyle photo by Ryan MacPhail Doyle made many drafts of his list. One didn’t include a Fall record, so had to be re-thought. Another featured favourites like Robert Wyatt, PJ Harvey and These New Puritans but again that was scratched. “Initially I was thinking about this as an all-time favourites list,” he says. “But one of the things that I was unhappy with when taking that approach was that the mood of them was all quite similar. They all seemed to have a very similar kind of pastoral melancholy feel.” So Doyle ditched that approach entirely. “I decided to write a list of albums that have had a significant impact in the direction of my life,” he says. “Maybe albums that were triggers for other experiences too. I think this is way more interesting to talk about than to just read someone talking from an analytical standpoint.”