also felt the album "had a lot to do with my music radar gradually shifting sideways into more esoteric areas beyond the formal conventions of techno-derived electronica." Helena Hauff also cited Forever Alien as one of her 13 favourite albums in another list for The Quietus. She described it as "just a great listening album. Sitting at home listening to it is very relaxing, very interesting, very beautiful. It would be one of those albums I'd put on when I was in the mood also for Serge Gainsbourg albums." In a 2011 interview, Kember said that Spectrum rarely play Forever Alien live as it requires a different set-up to their other material, due to the album's instrumentation largely relying on modular synths. He elaborated: "We don't play to a big enough audience that we can afford to travel all that [gear] around. It's pretty tough — we do all the driving, we don’t have any road crew, we don’t have a sound guy." Track listing All tracks written by Kember except where noted. "Feels Like I'm Slipping Away" – 5:32 "The Stars Are So Far (How Does It Feel?)" – 7:01 "Close Your Eyes and You'll See" – 6:03 "Delia Derbyshire" – 4:29 "Owsley" – 5:43 "Forever Alien" – 4:26 "Matrix" – 5:00 "Like....." (Kember, Sutcliffe) – 5:09 "The New Atlantis" (traditional, arr. Kember) – 5:29 "The End" – 5:14 "Sounds for a Thunderstorm (For Peter Zinovieff)" – 5:02 "Liquid Intentions" – 14:56 "Sine Study" – 3:30 Personnel Sonic Boom – synthesizers, theremin, vocoder, vocals, writing, producing Alf Hardy – voltage controlled synthesizers, vocoder, vibraphone, producing, engineering Pete Bassman – programming vibrations Andy Smith – artwork Andrew Knecht – mastering References 1997 albums Electronic albums by English artists Space rock albums Psychedelic music albums by English artists Reprise Records albums