COM TRUISE announces 1st album in 6 years, Iteration, out 16 June on Ghostly International

Above: Iteration album artwork. Press photo here - credit effixx

To play Oval Space. Hear "Memory" now. Hear new Com Truise track Memory ahead of 40-date tour with Clark & London Oval Space show

Com Truise – aka Seth Haley – recently announced a 40 date US tour with Warp stalwart Clark, to begin at the start of May. Today the LA-based producer takes the wraps off his new album, Iteration, due for release on June 16th via Ghostly International - his first full length in six years, following 2011’s Galactic Melt.

With today’s announcement, Com Truise shares lead single “Memory” and confirms a headline show at London’s Oval Space for November 8th.

"Repetition is a form of change," reads one of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies. Seth Haley knows the concept well, and his style of technicolour synth-wave takes the mantra as a challenge--how much emotion can one man convey through his machines? Six years ago, Galactic Melt introduced space traveler Com Truise and his journey through far-flung galaxies, before mini-epics Wave 1 and Silicon Tare expanded the story in further cosmic detail. And now Iteration concludes this particular sprawling saga. True to its name, the album is built on Com Truise hallmarks: neon-streaked melodies, big drums, robotic grooves, bleary nostalgia. But Iteration is also the most elegant and streamlined that Haley's music has ever sounded.

At the album's heart is an elaborate narrative, one full of longing, hope, anxiety, and triumph. Iteration illustrates the last moments Com Truise spends on the perilous planet Wave 1, before he and his alien love escape its clutches to live in peace. Album opener "...Of Your Fake Dimension" launches the interstellar drama with its anthemic swells and widescreen sound design, before lovesick songs like "Dryswch" and "Propagation" outline scenes wrought with cybernetic pathos. In “Isostasy”, the synaesthetic quality of Haley’s compositions is presented in ultra-high-definition. Later, the frantic rhythms of "Syrthio" conjure images of panicked flight, as Haley's gorgeous synth melodies gild the action in quiet heartbreak. Then comes the resounding "When Will You Find The Limit…", when Iteration's pain and sadness finds liberation in the vast unknown. The closing title track ends it all in a gush of majestic revelry.

So goes the winding story that Iteration tells, and yet there's more behind its telling. "I try hard not to write from my personal life, but it's inevitably going to seep into the music," Haley explains. "It's basically like I'm scoring this film in my head, but that film I'm scoring is also somehow my life." There are glimpses of the difficult time the East Coast native spent adjusting to a new life in Los Angeles, fighting homesickness and burnout while also touring the world. It was a time full of uncertainty, transition, and self-realization. After a year and a half of living in California, Haley finally recaptured his creativity by finding new excitement in his work. "I put more air, more breathing room in the music—that was the big change," he says. And once that clicked, the album quickly materialized.

Such a clear refinement of the Com Truise sound took time to develop, but Iteration is well worth the patience and perseverance it cost. Some of Haley's smartest, catchiest work is here, from the weightless pop heights of "Memory" to "Ternary"'s lush synth-funk. A song like "Vacuume" somehow manages to balance massive bass swells and punishing drums with stuttering angelic gasps, and "Usurper" gracefully pairs subtle poignant melodies with uplifting dance beats.

"For me, it feels like change," Haley says of his second album, and yes, this is Com Truise like never before. By embracing the music's inherent nature and peerless qualities, Iteration finds new avenues of expression in its vivid, familiar surroundings.
 
Com Truise – Interation track list:
01. ...Of Your Fake Dimension
02. Ephemeron
03. Dryswch
04. Isostasy
05. Memory (YouTube)
06. Propagation
07. Vacuume
08. Ternary
09. Usurper
10. Syrthio
11. When Will You Find The Limit…
12. Iteration

Com Truise tour dates:

May
01 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room @ The Observatory
01 Santa Cruz CA @ The Catalyst Atrium
04 Portland OR @ Holocene
05 Vancouver BC @ Imperial
06 Seattle WA @ Neumos
07 Eugene OR @ Wow Hall
09 San Francisco CA @ Mezzanine
10 Santa Barbara CA @ Soho Music Club
11 Los Angeles CA @ The Regent Theater
12 San Diego CA @ The Belly Up
13 Santa Fe NM @ Meow Wolf
14 Denver CO @ Bluebird Theater
16 St Louis MO @ Firebird
17 Nashville TN @ Exit In
19 Washington DC @ U Street Music Hall
20 Boston MA @ Together Music & Arts Festival
21 Hamden CT @ The Ballroom
23 Baltimore MD @ Ottobar
24 Philadelphia PA @ Coda
25 Brooklyn NY @ Warsaw
26 Montreal QC @ Theatre Fairmont
27 Toronto ON @ Velvet Underground
28 Detroit MI @ The Shelter
30 Cleveland OH @ Rex Theater

June
01 Indianapolis IN @ The Hi-Fi
02 Cleveland OH @ Grog Shop
03 Chicago IL @ Concord Music Hall
04 Minneapolis MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe
05 Omaha NE @ Slowdown
06 Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
07 Dallas TX @ Trees
08 Houston TX @ White Oak Music Hall
09 Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
10 Mexico City, Mx @ Sala Corona
November
08 London, UK @ Oval Space (Tickets)

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