The jet of flame beneath the alien ship is no longer a purplish spurt; it is now a ball of fire that burns a peculiar pink, as if E.T. and his fellow-travellers stoked their engines with bubble gum, and had stopped by on Earth to pick up supplies.
Pigeonheart is a dense and immersive listen imbued with an odd spirituality; but unlike, say Age of Adz, the heart and warmth within sometimes remain frustratingly buried beneath layers of alien affectations.
Propelled more by a sense of marvel than fear, the couple journey over threat-filled waters and beneath trees pocked with alien offspring.
The Bronx River Parkway and the New York Thruway have not escaped, for along them and secondary roads native trees are disappearing beneath a sea of alien plants.
It's testament to just how immersive the game was at the time that this glorified Hypercard brain teaser competed with far more substantial games like Doom, Beneath A Steel Sky, Alien Breed, and Flashback — and utterly humiliated them in sales.
According to the Guardian, leading astronomers report that the comet's features are best explained by the presence of living alien organisms beneath its icy surface.
The more playful breakbeats of "Cornish Acid" follow, and "Peek 824545201" zips and thwips, stringing together Autechre-like bubbles of alien percussion beneath another calming melody line on some kind of low-end, ghostly bass organ.
In March, for example, European scientists announced that one of their planetary probes had detected methane in the atmosphere of Mars -- a possible sign that alien microbes live beneath the planet's surface.
It scares me that so many of the decisions we must make, both in our personal lives and as a society, require an understanding of science and statistics, yet so many of even our brightest and best educated view these subjects as completely alien and somehow beneath them.
