The new FX series Alien: Earth , as Consequence is currently tracking every week , features some eclectic music choices, including Nina Simone and TV on the Radio needle drops and end credits songs from Metallica, Black Sabbath, and more. But one of the show’s mysteries (until now) is a haunting invocation of the Cream song “Strange Brew,” which is heard for only a few seconds as the opening stinger at the beginning of each episode — serving as the show’s main title theme.

The Cream cover, it turns out, is an original piece created by series composer Jeff Russo and show creator Noah Hawley , the latter performing the vocals. As Russo tells Consequence , Hawley had mentioned that the “Strange Brew” lyric “kill what’s inside of you” was “very apropos of what we were doing, f

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