Artwork – Seth Haley
Written-By, Producer – Com Truise
Licensed From – Com Truise
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Ghostly International
Copyright (c) – Ghostly International
Published By – Controlpopmusic
Pressed By – GZ Digital Media – X42165
foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2016-04-29 00:20:11
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Analyzed: Com Truise / Galactic Melt
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -0.32 dB -9.63 dB 1:47 01/10-Terminal
DR7 -0.29 dB -8.83 dB 4:25 02/10-VHS Sex
DR6 -0.32 dB -8.72 dB 4:36 03/10-Cathode Girls
DR7 -0.31 dB -8.25 dB 4:33 04/10-Air Cal
DR6 -0.33 dB -8.93 dB 5:05 05/10-Flightwave
DR5 -0.31 dB -8.58 dB 4:54 06/10-Hyperlips
DR5 -0.30 dB -6.61 dB 5:08 07/10-Brokendate
DR7 -0.30 dB -8.83 dB 5:06 08/10-Glawio
DR6 -0.32 dB -9.46 dB 4:21 09/10-Ether Drift
DR6 -0.32 dB -8.36 dB 3:10 10/10-Futureworld
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Review by Andy Kellman
Galactic Melt is Seth Haley's first album of all-new material for Ghostly International, following the label’s expanded reissue of Cyanide Sisters and a three-track single. It offers more bent fusions of synth funk, synth pop, and Italo disco -- hypnotically torpid, bass-heavy instrumentals that tend to be as tautly constructed as pop songs. As with Cyanide Sisters, there are no obvious highlights or low points. The moods the tracks evoke range from creeping menace to a kind of bewildered joy (the latter typically whenever gleaming synthesizer melodies are in play). Like fellow travelers Games/Ford & Lopatin, Haley’s output can be enjoyed in one-track doses or complete immersion, and it often inspires YouTube users to upload unofficial videos incorporating fuzzy, dreamlike images from early- to mid-‘80s television and film clips.