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{{Infobox album
| name = Alien Soundtracks
| type = studio
| artist = [[Chrome (band)|Chrome]]
| cover = Chrome Alien Soundtracks.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1977
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Alamar ([[San Francisco]], California)
| genre =
*[[art punk|Avant-punk]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stegall|first=Tim|date=2019-10-03|title=Top 15 punk LPs of 1977 that undeniably defined the year|url=https://www.altpress.com/features/best-1977-punk-albums/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Alternative Press|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Psychedelic music|psychedelia]]<ref name=AM/><ref name=RC/>
*[[industrial rock]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stegall|first=Tim|date=2019-10-03|title=Top 15 punk LPs of 1977 that undeniably defined the year|url=https://www.altpress.com/features/best-1977-punk-albums/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Alternative Press|language=en-US}}</ref>
| length = 38:12
| label = Siren
| producer = [[Damon Edge]]
| prev_title = [[The Visitation (Chrome album)|The Visitation]]
| prev_year = 1976
| next_title = [[Half Machine Lip Moves]]
| next_year = 1979
}}

'''''Alien Soundtracks''''' is the second studio album by American [[rock music|rock]] band [[Chrome (band)|Chrome]]. It was released in 1977 by Siren Records.

== Background ==
''Alien Soundtracks'' was Chrome's first record to feature [[Helios Creed]], who would remain a longtime member of the band.

== Reception ==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=AM>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/alien-soundtracks-mw0000086386 |title=''Alien Soundtracks'' – Chrome |last=Raggett |first=Ned |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=April 24, 2013}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Record Collector]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=RC>{{cite magazine |title=Chrome: ''Alien Soundtracks'' |magazine=[[Record Collector]] |page=104 |quote=All manner of samples and psychedelic wig-outs are interwoven by chaotic percussion, hypnotic guitar solos and wailing vocals...}}</ref>
}}

[[Head Heritage]] wrote: "<nowiki>'</nowiki>''Alien Soundtracks''<nowiki>'</nowiki> is where every aspect of Chrome is at its peak: at every speed and every facet as each barrage of electronic space debris, taped dialogue and collaged subterranean fears all get refracted through [[Damon Edge]]'s hypersensitive and distorted mental lenses that project outwards into a crazy quilt of half-caught meaning that, however disjointed the content (which pitches and tosses at every turn), a unity emerges that remains invigorating and consistent at every turn."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/chrome-alien-soundtracks |title=Chrome – ''Alien Soundtracks'' |author=The Seth Man |date=June 2014 |publisher=[[Head Heritage]] |accessdate=December 26, 2016}}</ref>

[[Alternative Press (magazine)|''Alternative Press'']] named it one of the 15 best punk albums to have come out in 1977, writing: "If [[Iggy and The Stooges|Iggy And The Stooges]]’ ''[[Raw Power]]'' was the sound of [[the Rolling Stones]] in hell, then ''Alien Soundtracks'' was the sound of the Stooges in hell, as a lo-fi sci-fi soundscape. The crude bashing and trash-compactor riffing had an acid-damaged edge, making this record both an avant-punk staple and early [[Industrial rock|industrial-rock]] statement."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stegall|first=Tim|date=2019-10-03|title=Top 15 punk LPs of 1977 that undeniably defined the year|url=https://www.altpress.com/features/best-1977-punk-albums/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Alternative Press|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Chromosome Damage
| writer1 = [[Helios Creed]], [[Damon Edge]]
| length1 = 3:50
| title2 = The Monitors
| writer2 = Creed, Edge
| length2 = 2:23
| title3 = All Data Lost
| writer3 = Creed, Edge
| length3 = 3:25
| title4 = SS Cygni
| writer4 = Creed, Edge
| length4 = 3:33
| title5 = Nova Feedback
| writer5 = Edge, John Lambdin, Gary Spain
| length5 = 5:53
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1 = Pygmies in Zee Park
| writer1 = Creed, Edge
| length1 = 6:01
| title2 = Slip It to the Android
| writer2 = Edge, Lambdin, Spain
| length2 = 3:47
| title3 = Pharoah Chromium
| writer3 = Edge, Lambdin, Spain
| length3 = 3:27
| title4 = ST37
| writer4 = Creed, Edge, Lambdin, Spain
| length4 = 2:12
| title5 = Magnetic Dwarf Reptile
| writer5 = Creed, Edge, Lambdin, Spain
| length5 = 3:41
}}

== Personnel ==
; Chrome

* [[Helios Creed]] – vocals, bass guitar, guitar
* [[Damon Edge]] – drums, [[Moog synthesizer]], [[record producer|production]], [[audio engineer|engineering]], [[art director|art direction]]
* John Lambdin – guitar, bass guitar, [[electric violin]]
* Gary Spain – bass guitar, acoustic and electric violins

; Technical

* Michael Gore – [[mastering (audio)|mastering]]
* Amy James – sleeve photography

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Discogs master|56933}}

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[[Category:1977 albums]]
[[Category:Chrome (band) albums]]

Alien Soundtracks - Revision history

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