Com Truise - Galactic Melt

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. 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.

“Cathode Girls. In what sounds like an elegy to some forgotten ancient city, this track finds the self-proclaimed circuit melter Com Truise meshing together decades of Casiotone wizardry; a Jean Michael Jarre ocean of sound cut and pasted over a regurgitated Arthur Baker beat, to create this deeply resonating cinematic delve into a world of possibilities.” – NME

TRACKLISTING:

1. Terminal
2. Vhs Sex
3. Cathode Girls
4. Air Cal
5. Flightwave
6. Hyperlips
7. Brokendate
8. Glawio
9. Ether Drift
10. Future World
11. Galactic Melt (Vinyl Exclusive)

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