Com Truise Returns With ‘Wave 1’ EP

Photo by Aaron Richter

“My music’s all based on this story about an android that travels to this other planet,” Com Truise explained in a Red Bull interview last summer. “So I’m not really writing about myself, but then I realized I have been all along. It’s all been about me.”

The latest chapter in the producer’s sci-fi storyline is Wave 1, an EP that explores what happens when an android is sent to space and lands on a planet that’s “like a mirrored civilization of our own…like Earth, but slanted, and a little weirder.”

The music is meant to reflect this skewed perspective, with songs that tweak Com Truise’s neon-hued template with restless tempos and even some vaporized guest vocals. Check out the latter’s impact on his sound below, as we share the record’s lead single—”Declination,” a collaboration with Joel Ford that falls right in line with his own Ford & Lopatin project alongside Oneohtrix Point Never—and its cover art, tracklisting and semi-related tour dates…

'Wave 1'

Com Truise, Wave 1 (Ghostly, February 4th):
1. Wasat
2. Mind
3. Declination (feat. Joel Ford)
4. Subsonic
5. Valis Called (Control)
6. Miserere Mei
7. Wave 1

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Com Truise tour dates:
12/5 Brooklyn, NY – The Paper Box
2/11 Montreal, QC – Le Belmont
2/12 Toronto, ON – Wrong Bar
2/13 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
2/14 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
2/15 Madison, WI – The Sett
2/16 Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry
2/18 St. Louis, MO – Firebird
2/19 Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar
2/20 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
2/21 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
2/22 Boise, ID – Neurolux
2/24 Vancouver, BC – Fortune Sound Club
2/25 Seattle, WA – Chop Suey
2/26 Portland, OR – Rotture
2/27 San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine
2/28 Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
3/1 San Diego, CA – Casbah
3/2 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
3/4 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
3/5 Austin, TX – Red 7
3/6 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
3/7 New Orleans, LA – Hi Ho Lounge
3/8 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
3/9 Nashville, TN – Exit In
3/10 Asheville, NC – The Mill Room
3/12.14 Washington, DC – DC9
3/13 Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
3/14 Cambridge, MA – Middle East Upstairs
3/15 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom