Com Truise - Fairlight

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4...according to our Clinton on Fri 23 Sep, 2011.

Right, enough is enough. If anyone else has a name which swaps the first letters of a celebrity to 'hilarious' effect then they won't get reviewed. You hear me? Com Truise gets away with it only because the track is a delightful squelchy, squiggling piece of synth bliss recalling the glory days of Harold Faltermeier. Not content with this they follow it with some wonderful '80s wet synth pyrotechnics akin to the magnificent new Thundercat album. Yes it's in vogue but I can't get enough of this type of thing. Wonderful tunes, lovely pink vinyl. Terrible name.

What do you call musicians like Com Truise? He seems easy enough to pin down—throw out some words like “nostalgia,” “synth-wave,” “eighties,” and “electro-funk” and you’ll scrape by—but to be truly insightful about his music is tough, because art that is so blatantly referencing certain things in a certain way while also making them weird and new and unique is confusing. How do you classify something that is so obviously both vintage and current but is too
fun to call postmodern?

“Awesome” is an option. Especially when it sounds like you’re driving the Knight Rider car through thick clouds of nitrous oxide, like “Fairlight,” the title track from Truise’s new single, which previously appeared on an ISO50 comp called Dry Waves and also has this jarring, falling-all-over-itself middle section that prevents you from trancing out too hard. “Beta Eyes,” the track that follows, is even more restless, with a drum pattern that’s fidgety and clustered, kicks and snares fighting each other like two drum and bass heads arguing over an Atari remote. “Polyhurt,” a narcotic, almost ballad-like closer that inevitably leaves you thinking, “Now, how the hell am I going to describe that to someone?” The vinyl exclusive cut "Colorvision" could be Truise's most dancefloor friendly track yet. Limited to 500 units worldwide (200 in Europe).