Com Truise arrived. It took a while. Various remixes and a few side projects later he released his full length debut album. After only short time from his more lo-fi (and chillwave influenced “Cyanide Sisters EP) he’s found his own sound. Most chillwavers did. Seth Haley works with a down-tempo, funky version of Boards of Canada. Oddly nobody else came up with this idea. No worries though, the album is an absolute treat for the ears.
If swag, that unknowable force, needed its own soundtrack, Galactic Melt would be that soundtrack. Right from the first track “Terminal” you can feel the pulse of the music. Seth is 80s synth heavy but the attention to detail is miles beyond what I usually hear. As the track progresses I feel the wind down, thinking I’m about to get shocked with a gigantic beat.
That’s the rest of album. By keeping the tempos slow, he literally blows you away with the sound. If things were sped up it would ruin the spaciousness of the songs. From “VHS Sex” to “Futureworld” there are multiple ideas: the funkiness, the melody, and the sounds reaching up into the sky.
“Brokendate” is easily my favorite. When I first heard this, I thought to myself: wow. I want to play this on an enormous sound system. Something I don’t have (excluding headphones). Listening to this I think how perfectly timed this release was, right in time to make it onto a summer jam MIX CD. Yeah, it is that tremendous. Com Truise is smart enough to pace it right too, allowing for a few quieter moments to focus on the muscularity of the sound.
Galactic Melt is uniformly good. Seth manages to keep the quality up throughout the whole release. Even the sound is kept consistent; he remains intensely focused on maintaining the mood. Really I’m pretty impressed with the album. There isn’t a dull moment.