Astral Gold
BASS RITUAL
8/10
ON an album rich with strange presences, there is perhaps none more curious than the Ilkley Alien, the ‘inspiration’ behind “The Second Message”, the penultimate song on Dean McPhee’s . “The Ilkley Alien is one of the few examples we have of a supposed photo of an alien,” McPhee says, picking up the thread of the story, explaining the incident that is said to have occurred on Ilkley Moor, in McPhee’s home county of West Yorkshire, on December 1, 1987. “The grainy and blurred image was photographed by an anonymous off-duty policeman before he was allegedly levitated into
