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download com truise iteration full album Iteration. Iteration is only the second proper full-length from Com Truise, and according to mastermind Seth Haley, it's the conclusion of the story line that began with 2011's Galactic Melt, involving a robot astronaut who falls in love while serving time on a battle mission. East Coast native Haley composed Iteration as he was settling into his new life in Los Angeles, and the album mirrors his own emotions and experiences as well as those of the Com Truise character. As with 2016 EP Silicon Tare, Iteration seems much clearer and more defined than the hazy, lo-fi synth funk of earlier Com Truise releases. The EP contained more uptempo tracks than usual for him, and it seemed to be the ideal soundtrack for intergalactic battle scenes. Iteration generally returns to the midtempo range, and doesn't seem quite as busy as the previous EP. Not that Com Truise's work has ever seemed cluttered, but this album seems significantly airier. While Iteration is fit for a day spent lounging by the pool as much as any other Com Truise release, it's anything but lazy. Even when the glittery melodies and booming beats have a slow-motion sway to them, they seem heavily detailed and considered. On a few occasions, a scrambled female computer voice makes an appearance, providing glimpses of what one can assume is the Com Truise character's object of affection and inspiration. A few songs, especially "Memory," feature Ibiza-ready melodies that would've popped up in tracks by progressive trance producers such as Paul van Dyk once upon a time, but they manage to sound fresh in this context. Others, such as "Vacuume," sound instantly familiar as Com Truise songs, yet there are enough added flourishes (bigger bass swerves, dreamier synth textures) that they don't sound like he's repeating himself. With Iteration, Haley has retained all of the qualities that made Com Truise so appealing while blowing everything up into a higher resolution than before. If this is truly the end of the Com Truise saga, then it's the project's definitive release. Com Truise Iteration Exclusive 2LP. "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. Six years after Galactic Melt introduced the cosmic story of Com Truise, Iteration now concludes his 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 singular 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. ". 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. 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, Hayley 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 just poured out of him. "It was like an information dump. I feel like I finished the record in two weeks." 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 of "Isostasy" to "Ternary"'s lush synth-funk. A song like "Vacuume" somehow balances massive bass drops and smashing drums with angelic gasps, and "Usurper" gracefully pairs subtle poignancy and uplifting dance beats. "For me, it feels like change," Hayley 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. Iteration. As Com Truise, the producer Seth Haley works within an especially constrained 1980s aesthetic. But he pushes himself towards a higher level of sophistication on his new LP. Featured Tracks: If you’re looking for music that recreates the synthesizer ambience that was so emblematic of the 1980s, there’s no shortage of current artists to turn to. But electronic producer Seth Haley’s work under his most well-known pseudonym, Com Truise, is arguably the closest you can come to a TRON -like experience of total immersion. Like his previous two full-lengths and four EPs, Haley’s latest Com Truise album Iteration immediately brings to mind the feel of low-budget exercise-video soundtracks and VHS tapes whose pitch would warp when your VCR’s tracking control would kick in and it sounded like the tape was getting chewed up in the player. Of course, these are sounds that immediately evoke their accompanying visuals. If Com Truise’s source of inspiration wasn’t obvious enough, though, his first two albums, 2011’s Galactic Melt and 2012’s In Decay spelled it out for you with album covers featuring the vintage fonts, crude computer design, and murky color saturation that once proliferated across film, TV, music, and advertising. Where artists like Boards of Canada, Tobacco, and Julian Casablancas have used ’80s aesthetics as one of several tools in their creative arsenal, Haley’s palette has been especially constrained. Whether this is intentional rather than unimaginative, you can’t get around Com Truise’s limited range. Haley does stretch out somewhat on Iteration , though, in contrast to previous releases, and he’s learning to emphasize composition over sounds alone. Opener “. Of Your Fake Dimension” begins with a stately keyboard figure that could have worked as a hook on acoustic piano or guitar. Likewise, the electronic drum pattern, bass-register synth line, and the extra keyboard fills that pepper the song all point to an increased awareness of band dynamics, as if Truise had live players in mind. There are numerous other examples like this, and Iteration certainly gives the impression that Haley has started to care about arrangements as much as he does about mood and tone. “Dryswch” starts out, as so much of Com Truise’s music does, with a keyboard haze that feels like looking out onto a thick blanket of fog, where you can’t clearly discern the boundary between the fog and anything else. A coiling sound effect that recalls the early days of Atari pogos across the stereo field—nothing new so far. But then the track quickly flowers as an actual song. Had “Dryswch” contained vocals, you could easily imagine it as a pop single; in fact, you almost can’t listen without hearing a vocal hook atop it. Still, Haley manages to invest the tune with a tension. At several points, the music pauses to hover, creating still pockets to reflect. “Dryswch” shows what Haley is capable of when he doesn’t lay things on quite so thick. It wouldn’t quite be fair to say that “Dryswch” rivals ’80s music as complex and cerebral as Seeds of Love -era Tears for Fears, but it’s certainly encouraging to see Haley pushing himself towards a higher level of sophistication with its sliding, interlocking parts. The album also features key moments—“Isostasy,” “Vacuume,” “Ternary”—where Haley goes for the gold with hooks so big and melodic they cause a kind of auditory sugar rush. The fact that he’s able to do so without a single vocal in sight shows what a skilled craftsperson he’s become. Of course, there are times throughout Iteration when Haley sounds trapped in the same old rut. Overall, though, the album balances between bombast and gestures that are a little harder to read. That contrast gives Iteration a texture that’s missing from previous Com Truise releases. In the past, Haley has steered the experience in one direction with such a singularity of focus that it felt like being engulfed in synthetic kitsch. Even if you weren’t averse to its overwhelming ’80s flavor, it didn’t take long for the music to get flat or even queasy. This time, Haley works around his limitations just enough to stave off one-trick irrelevance. Good on him, as it’s only a matter of time before ’80s retrofuturism becomes a thing of the distant past.