★★★★★
In 2011, Seth Haley's Com Truise couldn't have been more of-the-moment. A vintage-synth freak with a nostalgic moniker diving headlong into the sounds of 1983? In that long, hazy comedown from 2009's summer of chillwave, Haley was practically popping a wheelie on the zeitgeist. He took full advantage, too, offering up the superb Cyanide Sisters EP and the almost-as-good Galactic Melt LP in the same calendar year...
- pitchfork.com
2014-02-28
★★★★★
Com Truise's chrome-plated synth jams have always come across as a kind of musical mood ring. In loose, romantic, wistful moments, the best of Seth Haley's high-sheen outings ("Brokendate" or "VHS Sex," for instance) appeal to a nostalgia-junkie area of the brain over which few of us have much control. However, in harder-nosed, colder frames of mind, the same music's hyper-stylized maneuvers can occasionally seem tiresome...
- www.xlr8r.com
2014-02-19
★★★★★
When it was announced before the film's 2010 release that Daft Punk would be composing the score for Tron: Legacy, fans of the franchise and the band alike knew that they had something to look forward to. The robotic duo couldn't have found a more suitable film to flex electronic on, and the group's final product was a relative masterpiece compared to the film...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-02-19
★★★★★
On his analog synth-heavy debut LP, , Seth Haley (a.k.a. Com Truise) came off as a musician possessed by and obsessed with his hardware. On the stopgap EP, his newest batch of songs, Haley feels looser, more focused and much more imaginative. Relying less on effects and plug-ins to drive his music, the seven tracks that make up the EP seemingly run with pure sonic purpose, while never sounding structured or systematized...
- exclaim.ca
2014-02-15
★★★★★
Today is the age of the microgenre, and unfortunately New Jersey's Com Truise has been unfairly tied to one that has more or less done him a bit of a disservice. Chillwave (or god forbid, "indietronica") has been almost ubiquitously pervaded by acts that are content in riding the fashionable waves of retroism that seem to be all the rage today without the least bit of sincerity or interest in the music they make...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-02-12
★★★★★
With only one full-length (last year's Galactic Melt), a few EPs and a healthy Internet presence under his belt, it may seem too early for Com Truise (the punny moniker of producer Seth Haley) to be releasing a rarities album, yet here it is. In Decay is 13 tracks of downtempo danceability that's just too repetitive by half...
- exclaim.ca
2012-08-16
★★★★★
It could never be argued that Com Truise (a.k.a. Seth Haley) lacks a distinct sound. The only thing that rivals the New Jersey producer's stylistic consistency is the apparent prolificacy with which he explores his '80s-obsessed, synth-centric world...
- www.xlr8r.com
2012-07-23
★★★★★
The music Seth Haley creates under the moniker Com Truise can best be understood as a series of variations on the same theme. Not to undersell the producer's talent, but hearing just one track--any track--is all you need to get a handle on what he's trying to accomplish...
- www.prefixmag.com
2012-07-05
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare The Slow Burn With a name and style likely to inspire WTF reactions, moog-aholic Com Truise drops his debut album, Galactic Melt. Thought mid-fi synth-wave is something Seth Haley has been doing for years, this only comes after his rising in popularity with a remix featured on the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. Now the New York based producer begins to make his way into the competitive world of electronic music production...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-12-01