Cyanide Sisters (Bonus Track Version)

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Seth Haley’s day job as a designer is telling — and not just because his first proper Com Truise release is an early candidate for record sleeve of the year. Haley’s art background also shows up in his songwriting, with beats that are built from the bottom up and an attention to detail that’s lacking in many of today’s bedroom producers. Sure enough, the former DJ spent about a decade making music under different aliases (Sarin Sunday, SYSTM, Airliner) before settling on the shimmering, genre-jumping sound of Com Truise. More than just a byproduct of ‘80s nostalgia, the self-released Cyanide Sisters EP — now reissued/remastered with four bonus tracks that hint at the neon-hued direction of his forthcoming album — is as diverse as the 12-inchers that crowd Haley’s New Jersey apartment. So while everything seems to glow like an old, Nintendo-tethered TV, the synth sculptor also slips in slight layers of acid techno (the wormy analog waves of “BASF Ace”), dubstep (the wobbly baselines of “Tripyra”), moonlit soft rock (the bedside guitar loops of “Norkuy”), and morose, New Order-schooled pop (“Pyragony”).