Forever Alien

by Spectrum

Forever Alien cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 August 1997
  • Label: Space Age Recordings
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:17:40
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Alf Hardy, Sonic Boom

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Sonic Boom (Peter Kember) pushes Spectrum completely into the synthesizer realm, creating a swirling, highly hypnotic space rock revival masterpiece. Fully embracing progressive electronic and neo-psychedelic textures, the album is a captivating, science fiction-tinged ambient drone journey.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, electronic, guitars, distorted, loud, synthesizers, ambient, space, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Feels Like I'm Slipping Away (5:32)
  2. The Stars Are So Far (How Does It Feel?) (7:01)
  3. Close Your Eyes And You'll See (6:03)
  4. Delia Derbyshire (4:29)
  5. Owsley (5:43)
  6. Forever Alien (4:26)
  7. Matrix (5:00)
  8. Like (5:09)
  9. The New Atlantis (5:29)
  10. The End (5:14)
  11. Sounds for Thunderstorm (For Peter Zinovieff) (5:02)
  12. Liquid Intentions (14:56)
  13. Sine Study (3:29)

Credits

  • Spectrum - primary artist
  • Andy Smith - artwork
  • Pete Bassman - performer [programming vibrations]
  • Pete Kember - written-by, arranged by
  • Alan Sutcliffe - written-by
  • Traditional - written-by

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