Name: Persuasion System
Brand: Com Truise

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

GI337lp

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Black vinyl.

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-05-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

804297833712

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Total Cap

Black LP

GI337cd

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804297833736

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Com Truise

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Ghostly International

Cheap Thrills

Producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and currently based in Los Angeles, California. With a unique blend of *Neon Indian*, *Brothertiger*, and *Blackbird Blackbird* influences, Com Truise has carved out his own space in the electronic music scene. His sound is characterized by dreamy synth melodies, nostalgic 80s vibes, and intricate production techniques.

Com Truise's music transports listeners to a world filled with retro-futuristic landscapes and neon-lit cityscapes. Drawing inspiration from artists like *Small Black*, *Washed Out*, and *Teen Daze*, he creates lush soundscapes that captivate audiences with their ethereal beauty.

Known for his attention to detail, Com Truise's tracks are meticulously crafted sonic journeys that take listeners on an immersive experience. His discography includes standout releases such as "Galactic Melt" and "In Decay," which showcase his ability to create mesmerizing electronic compositions.

For nearly a decade the story of Com Truise has relied on science fiction and abstract fact. Seth Haley’s singular style of melodic beat music subsists as hazy machinist nostalgia, a mainframe downloaded cosmology. Yet with each release, alongside sonic refinement, comes an increasingly visible vapor trail to Haley’s own ontology. His long-awaited 2017 LP Iteration brought to completion a conceptual space saga while also reflecting seismic life changes for the producer and designer. With mini-LP Persuasion System, Haley leaves the past narrative behind, settling into a new period marked by change — on this planet, in the present — putting forth his most grounded and visceral work to date.

The project began as an experiment. Haley switched digital audio workstations, rebuilt his palette of sounds, and tasked himself with simply trying it out. The exercise freed him of expectations and permitted a process that echoed the tones of more immediate external environments. A gravity had seeped in; resulting material shifts between bleakness and sublime suspense, awe at the expanse of existing, in looking back and letting go. “It’s a sort of sad smile and a wave goodbye but at the same time hello, a 'welcome to your life’ moment,” Haley says. Take the storm pattern sequence from “Gaussian” to “Ultrafiche of You”: a queasy, contemplative vignette rests on a single soft-synth cloud before the latter’s percussion ripples across the sky. With trademark stutters and swells, the composition conjures the sensation of searching in the afterglow. “It’s a love song, and I don’t write many of those.” 

That duality — melancholy + optimism, then + now — permeates this widescreen collection. “Existence Schematic” takes flight at night, “looking down at the landscape,” explains Haley, “seeing the lights in a schematic sort of way, wondering who or what is looking back up at me wondering the same things I am, the impact of a single existence, the end, the beginning, where it’s gone and going.” These are observations from this existential Persuasion System, and Haley hopes the music yields more, for others, that listeners may search for their own tension and release.

Persuasion System

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