Total Strife Forever

Total Strife Forever
Studio album by East India Youth
Released	January 13, 2014
Genre	Indietronica synthpop experimental ambient
Length	51:00
Label	Stolen Recordings
East India Youth chronology
Total Strife Forever (2014) Culture of Volume (2015)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	81/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	9/10 [2]
Drowned in Sound	9/10 [3]
The Line of Best Fit	9/10 [4]
Mojo	[5]
musicOMH	[6]
NME	8/10 [7]
Q	[8]
The Skinny	[9]
Uncut	9/10 [10]
Under the Radar	8.5/10 [11]

Total Strife Forever is the debut album by the electronic musician East India Youth. It was released on January 13, 2014 by Stolen Recordings. ^[12] The album was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize. ^[13]

The cover of Total Strife Forever was designed by Kohhei Matsuda (of Bo Ningen) and features a portrait of William Doyle by artist Tida Bradshaw. ^{[14] [15]}

The album title is a pun on the Foals album Total Life Forever .

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Glitter Recession"	4:19
2.	"Total Strife Forever I"	6:35
3.	"Dripping Down"	4:11
4.	"Hinterland"	6:16
5.	"Heaven, How Long"	6:09
6.	"Total Strife Forever II"	2:55
7.	"Looking for Someone"	4:15
8.	"Midnight Koto"	3:13
9.	"Total Strife Forever III"	4:41
10.	"Song for a Granular Piano"	4:01
11.	"Total Strife Forever IV"	4:25
Total length:		51:00

Chart positions

Chart (2014)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart [16]	85
UK Dance Chart [16]	14
UK Indie Albums Chart [16]	9
UK Indie Breakers Chart [16]	3
UK Vinyl Albums Chart [16]	6

References

1. "Total Strife Forever Reviews - Metacritic". Metacritic . Retrieved 29 January 2014.
2. Rivers, Joe (6 January 2014). "East India Youth – Total Strife Forever". Clash . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
3. Fenwick, Tom (19 October 2014). "East India Youth - Total Strife Forever". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
4. Day, Laurence (10 January 2014). "East India Youth - "Total Strife Forever"". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
5. Locating a broken, but still-beating heart within metallic machine music, East India Youth's debut is a triumph. [Feb 2014, p.97]
6. Young, Martyn (8 January 2014). "East India Youth – Total Strife Forever". musicOMH . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
7. Hebblethwaite, Phil (10 January 2014). "East India Youth - 'Total Strife Forever'". NME . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
8. When it swells and soars, it doesn't just work. It werks. [Feb 2014, p.115]
9. Gieben, Bram E. (2 January 2014). "East India Youth – Total Strife Forever". The Skinny . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
10. A Major new British talent is born in William Doyle's solo debut, which sounds like the great lost album that Brian Wilson, Eno and Bjork should have made together. [Feb 2014, p.75]
11. Lucas, Dan (30 January 2014). "East India Youth - Total Strife Forever". Under the Radar . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
12. "East India Youth : Stolen Recordings". Stolen Recordings . January 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
13. "2014 Shortlist - Barclaycard Mercury Prize". Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
14. Total Strife Forever (liner notes). 2014.
15. Steven, Rachael (8 January 2014). "Record Sleeves of the Month". Creative Review (CR Blog). Creative Review. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
16. Charts Plus issue 648