Galactic Melt, by Com Truise

Galactic Melt

by Com Truise

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itx Ever since I saw David elsewhere dancing to Flightwave in a Youtube video, I was hooked. Com Truise is a real synthwave mastermind, and Galactic Melt is a vital album for anyone interested in this genre! Favorite track: Flightwave.

Vehement Velleities in his childhood he spent times lost in dreams on the beaches of South Jersey. I learned this after I heard these songs and it rang so true Favorite track: Brokendate.

I'm melting....what a world...... Favorite track: Terminal.

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1.	Terminal 01:46	buy track
2.	VHS Sex 04:25	buy track
3.	Cathode Girls 04:36	buy track
4.	Air Cal 04:32	buy track
5.	Flightwave 05:04	buy track
6.	Hyperlips 04:54	buy track
7.	Brokendate 05:08	buy track
8.	Glawio 05:06	buy track
9.	Ether Drift 04:20	buy track
10.	Futureworld 03:10	buy track
11.	Karova (Digital Bonus) 05:12	buy track

about

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 proto-electro 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.

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released June 14, 2011

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Main Room, Superior Ingredients

Brooklyn, NY
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Variety Playhouse

Atlanta, GA
Dec 31

Variety Playhouse

Atlanta, GA

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