#87 - Meltdown by The Owl

Released on the last day of Summer, the hottest on record for a lot of areas in the world, and with that in mind, here is OWL87 'Meltdown'.

An hour long multi-style experimental, electroacoustic, loud and quiet concept album made over the last 14 years, intended as a thematic follow up to OWL46 'Hibernation', which was about dealing with bitter Winter darkness, both physically and mentally, and the catharsis of getting through those dark times.

'Meltdown' takes that theme to the opposite extremes of severe heat intertwined with mental breakdown and almost literally the feeling of your brain melting away through overheating with stress, anxiety, depression, the world around you and figuring out ways to keep cool.

In making this album, I took a closer look at what people, this planet and indeed this universe can facilitate and endure.

Thank you to those who join me in this journey.

Tracklist

1.	If We Go To Hell, We'll Take A Blanket	6:33

2.	The Danakil Depression	9:07

3.	Time Is Irrelevant In The Desert	6:45

4.	Mercury Rising	3:00

5.	Two Trillion Degrees Of Separation	19:18

6.	Oodnadatta	6:35

7.	Walk Through The Valley Of Death	5:41

8.	When It Has All Gone	3:00

Credits

released September 23, 2022

Made between April 2008 and August 7th 2022, with bass, piano, guitar, synth, voice, makeshift percussive implements, Reaper, Wavepad, Fruity Loops, Soundforge, my phone and Zoom recorders, various effects pedals, plug-ins and distortions.

A few sections or ideas on this album are repurposed from unreleased Incandescence and Cerebral Constriction tracks dating back over a decade, or unused compilation tracks, but the vast majority of the work on this album has been done from January 2022 onwards.

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Special thank you to Taylor Hardy (aka Grandpa Grim on here) for planting the seed of the Hibernation follow up idea, back in October 2021, and also for one of the best reviews my music (solo or in bands) has ever had on that album.

If you wish to (re)acquaint yourself with 'Hibernation', then here it is:
theowl.bandcamp.com/album/46-hibernation

Photos for the cover, thank you and titles taken by me in Kunčice pod Ondřejníken, Czech Republic. Photos used on the individual tracks found on the internet. All are included in the download as well.

Video for 'Gone': www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0X342u7MLM
Video for 'Time': www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUonpj8JGQ
Video for the full album using drone footage over deserts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcmPcV9IrHQ

Thank you for joining me on this precisely one hour long journey.

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