Extreme Hazard Planet

Bjørn Felle’s creative output is eclectic, engaging and energetic; an idiosyncratic electronic sound inspired by 80s synthpop and punk, 90s techno, house and indie grunge, the odd 16-bit video game soundtrack, and a healthy dose of psychedelia. As a result, Extreme Hazard Planet sounds like a blend of the tongue-in-cheek party vibes of Holy Fuck and the character-piece songwriting of Blur, amped and industrialised and then degraded with the lo-fi VHS vibes of TVAM.

Exploring the album’s genesis, themes and inspiration, Bjørn explains:

“Extreme Hazard Planet is the neon alert blinking on your head-up display. It's the warning blaring in your helmet. It's the history of a civilisation encoded in a probe and launched into the unknown, in hopes that another planet might learn not to be doomed to repeat that history.

“Closer to home, it's my way of trying to understand the growing tendency within humans for self-destruction. It's a story told in roughly chronological order, starting with instincts like tribalism, the pleasure principle and empathy. The album takes a brutalising joyride through the wasteland, touching on our apathy towards the whole thing along the way.