Com Truise

New York native and Los Angeles resident Seth Haley crafts warped, bass-heavy tracks he calls "slow-motion funk"—sludgy grooves offset by luminous synthesizer lines—under the alias Com Truise. Working with a wide array of analog and digital keyboards, he fuses new-wave and film-score textures with intricate, downtempo rhythms. Through steady touring and a prolific release schedule, he has cultivated an audience within the synthwave, chillwave, and indie-electronic communities. His output, which began with the 2010 release Cyanide Sisters, chronicled the adventures of a fictional “synthetic astronaut” also named Com Truise; that narrative arc concluded with the 2017 album Iteration, yet Haley kept the project name alive and returned with Persuasion System in 2019. He has additionally mined his early recordings for the archival collections In Decay (2012) and In Decay, Too (2020). The 2023 EP Brokendate revisited the track “Brokendate,” spotlighting a new version that features Doja Cat.

Haley’s debut came in 2010 with the digital EP Cyanide Sisters on AMDISCS. Ghostly International reissued the set in January 2011, expanding it by four tracks. Two months afterward the label issued the three-song digital teaser Fairlight, previewing the full-length Galactic Melt that arrived that June. By then Haley had already supplied remixes for Neon Indian (“Sleep Paralysist”), Twin Shadow (“Castles in the Snow”), and Daft Punk (“Encom, Pt. 2”). July 2012 brought the download-only Ghostly compilation In Decay, gathering previously unheard material. The following month he contributed the exclusive track “Chemical Legs” to Adult Swim’s Singles Program. Additional remixes, including work for Sally Shapiro (“What Can I Do”) and Bloodgroup (“Mysteries Undone”), preceded the February 2014 Ghostly EP Wave 1; a vinyl edition of In Decay followed later that year.

Com Truise resurfaced in 2016 with the EP Silicon Tare and issued his second proper album, Iteration, the next year. Described as more polished than earlier efforts, the record was positioned as the saga’s closing installment. Haley stayed active, adjusting his setup before delivering Persuasion System in 2019. In Decay, Too, another trove of vaulted early pieces, appeared in 2020, and Galactic Melt received a reissue in 2022. One of its cuts, “Brokendate,” had been sampled by Doja Cat for “4 Morant (Better Luck Next Time),” which gained widespread attention on TikTok. Years after its initial online appearance, the original track received an official release on the 2023 EP Brokendate, which also contained alternate takes.