"Doyle is an artist who evidently doesn't see an unabashed love of pop music as antithetical to experimentation, who doesn't get why wanting your music to be smart should automatically lead it being an arid intellectual exercise, and who doesn't feel the need to stick within a clearly defined genre. That this stuff seems notable rather than commonplace perhaps tells you more about the current musical era than it does about East India Youth. But context isn't everything. It's not that William Doyle wants to do interesting and laudable things. It's that, on the evidence of Culture of Volume, he's really good at doing them"