Wave 1
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| EP by Com Truise | ||||
| Released | February 18, 2014 | |||
| Length | 28:07 | |||
| Label | Ghostly International | |||
| Producer | Com Truise | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 69/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Consequence of Sound | B- |
| Exclaim! | 7/10 |
| NME | 6/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.7/10 |
| Spectrum Culture | |
| Sputnikmusic | 3.7/5 |
| The Washington Post | (favorable) |
| XLR8R | 6.5/10 |
Wave 1 is the third extended play released under synthwave musician Seth Haley's pseudonym Com Truise. Haley described his releases as Com Truise as parts of a story about the world's first "Synthetic Astronaut" on his adventure to a planet, and Wave 1 is where he lands on a kind-of replica of Earth. Musically, Haley had to get inspiration from several artists as this part of the story is also where the music starts to change.
The EP is a combination of styles including synth soul, drum and bass, synth funk and electro, and retains the bright and danceable vibe from Com Truise's debut album Galactic Melt (2011). Promoted with two pre-EP track releases, a music video for the track "Subsonic" and a February–March 2014 tour, the EP was issued on the Ghostly International label in February 2014 to generally positive reviews, with critics praising the record's creativity. Commercially, it also landed in the top ten of the American Billboard Dance/Electronic and Heatseekers album charts.
In a June 2013 Twitter post, Seth Haley said he wrote Wave 1 without knowing it was a reflection of how he was living in the few months of his life before. He started taking care of his health, suffered through an ended relationship, and relocated to Brooklyn. He said that despite not usually revealing his personal life publicly, he said in an interview that when he makes his music, : "it's always just there, and it happens, but I don't focus on it. My music's all based on this story about an android that travels to this other planet. So I'm not really writing about myself, but then I realized I have been all along. It's all been about me."
Maintaining the bright and danceable feel from Com Truise's 2011 debut studio album Galactic Melt and garnering more of a melodic approach than previous releases of the project,Wave 1 is a combination of synth soul,drum and bass,synth funk,electro, and, in the words of a Pitchfork Media reviewer, "fussy 80s computer-pop". Seth Haley has described the character of Com Truise as the first ever "Synthetic Astronaut", and each release under the name shows the next part in this voyage to a planet. Wave 1 is a part of the story where he lands on a sort-of replica of Earth, and Haley thought there was "something eerie about it, something familiar but something peculiar as well." Because this was also meant to be a part of the story where the music starts changing, he had taken inspiration from several acts including New Order and Prince to have a much broader range of tempos and styles in each track.
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