PLESS – Hypernormal
On Hypernormal, PLESS maps each track to a fictional place, merging dark cinematic moods with bright, ecstatic flashes of sound.
PLESS – Hypernormal
On their debut album Hypernormal, PLESS imagine each track as a distinct fictional place, giving the music its own physical and atmospheric contours. Philipp Thöni tends to externalise these locales, while Leo Matkovic gravitates towards interior spaces, creating a constant play between the outward and inward gaze.
The track titles either amplify or counterpoint these settings, so that in sequence the listener travels across changing distances to different sites—each one part of the same celestial body. As Hypernormal unfolds, images rise before the mind’s eye: sombre, cinematic moods pierced by ecstatic flashes of lightness. It is an observation of worldly things, perceived through a newly tilted dimension.