Haley’s been making music on the side since the early 2000s —going through pseudonyms like toothbrushes (Sarin Sunday, SYSTM, Airliner)—first as a DJ, and currently, as an excavator of softer, window-fogging synthwave.
While subliminally informed by both parental record collections and hints of faded electronics product design, Haley’s Com Truise project isn’t just nostalgia capitalization. There are fragments (read: DNA strands) of Joy Division, New Order, and the Cocteau Twins, but it’s like you’re hearing them through the motherboard of a waterlogged Xbox—demented and modern. He’s got a way of making familiar things sound beautifully hand-smeared.
In 2011, the first Com Truise release was the Cyanide Sisters EP—distributed for free on the AMdiscs label—where mellow stone-outs like “Sundriped” and “Slow Peels” sat next to harder IDM bangers (“BASF Ace” and “IWYWAW”) and bumpy alt-funk trips (“Norkuy” and “Komputer”). After that came a single “Pyragony/Trypyra,” and a series of eclectic podcast mixes titled “Komputer Cast.” Now comfortably situated amidst the Ghostly roster, he’s prepping his next warped pillage, and hopefully not changing that name again.
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Com Truise Lyrics
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An invocation of the titular concept, meant to set the tone and mood of the song through its repetition.
Satellite rises
The image of a satellite ascending is used metaphorically to describe the moment when one is fully immersed in the act of sex.
Entice these vices
The singer is aware of their own unhealthy habits, but chooses to indulge in them anyway.
Transmission, turn me on
The idea that a sexual encounter is like a signal that is received, amplified, and responded to.
Comfort and pleasure are my only cons
The artist is willing to ignore any potential negative consequences in order to experience sexual gratification.
Chrome leisure suit, my elastic lover
A playful reference to various fashion and design styles from the 1980s, in the context of a sexual encounter that is both flexible and durable.
Electronic buzzing, you're my circuit mother
Drawing a comparison between the sensation of arousal and the hum of a machine, as well as acknowledging the role of the other person in guiding and directing pleasure.
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Repeating the title one last time to emphasize the central theme of the song.
Contributed by Adalyn L. Suggest a correction in the comments below.