Review: Odyssey One by The Owl

It's always an exciting prospect to discover a completely new artist (to you at least) that also has a huge wealth of material in a back catalogue primed and ready for exploration. I had this experience last year when I interviewed miserable.noise.club , and have had similar experiences with the likes of Tim Hecker and Merzbow in the past. I am now having this experience again with The Owl, the solo project of Leeds, UK based instrumentalist Paul Priest. Paul has also been a member of Gets Worse and Hundred Year Old Man among a slew of other bands who fall on the heavy/extreme/post/experimental spectrum. Under The Owl moniker there are a whopping 33 releases so far on bandcamp , and Odyssey One will soon become number 34. The music across this discography can both solely focus on and wildly combine elements of drone, doom, noise, glitch, ambient, industrial and field recordings. There's no one specific sound or genre to expect from The Owl's music, but from what I have lis