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When talking about the music of Com Truise (one of the many pseudonyms of
New Jersey designer/musician Seth Haley), the nostalgia bit inevitably comes
up, so let’s get that out of the way. Yes, his songs tap classic sci-fi and protoelectro
in a way that is distinctly early eighties in scope. But they’re also remarkably
weird--stutter-step proggy and intoxicatingly psychedelic, like those
classic touchstones got drunk on lava lamp juice inside a pinball machine.
After his well-received Cyanide Sisters EP, a grip of remixes for artists like
Twin Shadow, Neon Indian, and, uh, Daft Punk, and a few floating MP3s,
Truise's first LP, Galactic Melt, will finally enter brainspaces this summer.
And what an appropriate title it bears. For a brief moment, opener "Terminal"
subsumes you in warm, starry-eyed synth arpeggios, and then down the rabbit
hole you go--from the keyed up, skyscraping machine love of "VHS Sex" and
"Cathode Girls" to opuses like "Air Cal" and "Ether Drift" that sound like Doogie
Howser's idea of the perfect prom song -mathy, forlorn, funky, and mighty
in technical ambition. That they're all noticeably cinematic is, of course, by
design--Haley envisioned Galactic Melt as a "sort of film score...from the
mind," chronicling the lift and death of Com Truise, the world's first synthetic/
robotic astronaut, from his creation and life on earth to his subsequent mission
to a newly discovered galaxy called "Wave 1." Eventually, Truise becomes
one with his newfound cosmos, like Pinocchio becoming a real boy, but in the
nether regions of imaginary space.
Haley says knowing when and how to complete such an opus was the hardest
part of making the record, nevermind all the carefully synth programmed patches
on his Sequential Circuits Split-8 or the three years of real life that
transpired during its genesis. It’s a world unto itself, a sci-fi bildungsroman of
sorts, and most importantly, an awesome escape from the corporeal.
Key Selling Points
-Recent remixes for Neon Indian, Twin Shadow and Daft Punk’s Tron
Soundtrack
-Recent praise from Pitchfork, Fader, Stereogum, Dazed, XLR8R, CMJ,
FACT, De:Bug + more
voices music & entertainment as
COM TRUISE
- GALACTIC MELT
RELEASE: 4.JULI 2011
ART: GI138CD/LP
PPD: CD4/LP9A
EAN: 804297813820 / 804297813813
LABEL: GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
CD TRACKLIST:
01. Terminal
02. VHS Sex
03. Cathode Girls
04. Air Cal
05. Flightwave
06. Hyperlips
07. Brokendate
08. Glawio
09. Ether Drift
10. Futureworld
VINYL TRACKLIST:
A1. Terminal
A2. VHS Sex
A3. Cathode Girls
B1. Air Cal
B2. Flightwave
B3. Hyperlips
C1. Brokendate
C2. Glawio
C3. Ether Drift
D1. Futureworld
D2. Galactic Melt (Vinyl Bonus)
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