In 2011, Seth Haley's Com Truise couldn't have been more of-the-moment. A vintage-synth freak with a nostalgic moniker diving headlong into the sounds of 1983? In that long, hazy comedown from 2009's summer of chillwave, Haley was practically popping a wheelie on the zeitgeist. He took full advantage, too, offering up the superb Cyanide Sisters EP and the almost-as-good Galactic Melt LP in the same calendar year. But, apart from 2012's soggy early-days comp , we've heard next to nothing from him in the interim. , Com Truise's new seven-song EP, is the first in a planned series that, as Haley told DazedDigital, concerns "the world’s first Synthetic Astronaut on this journey to a planet—each release represents the next stage in his journey." The chrome-plated, pristine plants itself at the intersection of synth-funk, electro, and fussy 80s computer-pop. Haley, returning from a two-year absence, seems content to reemerge as a man out of time: unconcerned with the trends of the day, blissfully mining Reagan-era pop at its most meticulous.