In Decay
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| Studio album by Com Truise | ||||
| Released | July 16, 2012 | |||
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| Length | 56:22 | |||
| Label | Ghostly International | |||
| Producer | Com Truise | |||
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| Allmusic |    |
| Consequence of Sound | D |
| Pitchfork | 5.6/10 |
| Prefix | 7.5/10 |
| Tiny Mix Tapes |    |
| XLR8R | 7/10 |
In Decay (stylized as in decay.) is a compilation and studio album by American electronic musician Seth Haley's project Com Truise, released on July 16, 2012 by the independent record label Ghostly International. The record is a collection of tracks that, before its release, were only available as demos found on Haley's internet mixtape series Komputer Kasts and his SoundCloud account. These early tracks, some of which were produced before the release of Cyanide Sisters (2010), showcase Haley exploring an electropop funk music sound that would later come to define the Com Truise project.Critical reception upon release was mixed overall; a common praise was the album's sound design, while a frequent criticism was its repetition and the lack of distinction of tone and feel from each track.
For Haley's second studio album of his Com Truise project, he initially planned to "kind of experiment more, because I was feeling a little trapped for a while there, after doing a bunch of touring and stuff." However, following demands from his label Ghostly International and emails sent by listeners to issue a collection of his demos and tracks that were previously only on internet-distributed mixtapes, such as those from his Komputer Kasts series, and his Soundcloud account, Haley ultimately decided to make his next release a collection of these tracks. With "Open" released as the lead single of In Decay on June 26, 2012,Stereogum premiered the compilation on July 16, 2012.
In Decay is a collection Com Truise's early recordings, some of them from Truise's online mixtapes while others unreleased, mastered for this LP by Haley. The earliest-made tracks featured on In Decay were before the release of Cyanide Sisters (2010), and Haley described these early tracks as less "experimental" and more "structured" than his later material. As Haley explained, "some of those tracks are maybe a continuation [of the themes and sounds on Galactic Melt], and there are parts of them which follow the same path. But there are others which are pretty old, at least to me. It feels different.”In Decay maintains the same electropop funk music structure consisting of 1980s synthesizers, tough bass sounds and science fiction elements that was on Com Truise's previous releases. In fact, some reviewers have described the songs on the LP as lo-fi, "somewhat grittier," and "slightly rougher-around-the-edges" versions of the sound of the past records. Ghostly's press release explains that the compilation is a document of Haley exploring parts of this sound, such as "8-bit influenced experimentalism" and "distinctly danceable beats." Some tracks on In Decay are slow-tempo, calm-vibe dance songs, while others are extraterrestrial psychedelic cuts similar to the works of Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh.
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