I can only relay to you my path. I shall chart my own history that led to the discovery that Com Truise is one of the greatest musicians of our times and if you follow the same pattern, you should arrive at this conclusion as well.
First off, acquire a copy of Galactic Melt (or simply add the album to your collection on the streaming platform of your choice).
Now, this part is tricky. As a child, watch 70% of the theatrical cut of Blade Runner. Right after the scene where Deckard kills Zhora, have your father send you out of the room because this film is clearly too violent for children. This will allow a mystique to develop around this film as you refrain from watching it for a decade.
Now, as a teenager, watch the 90s Director’s Cut of Blade Runner.
Five years later, watch The Final Cut in theaters. Buy the Blu-Ray collection of all the different cuts of the film and finally watch the rest of the theatrical cut, solving that mystery for yourself.
Now, take public transit to a friend’s house and on the way there, listen to Galactic Melt. You should feel like you yourself are in the universe of Blade Runner and this is a forgotten alternate soundtrack for the film. You are the protagonist and this music will perfectly underscore your thoughts and actions and you will fall into a deep rumination about your place in the world.
Perhaps a week after having this experience, read this interview wherein Seth says his favorite movie is Blade Runner and he has seen it one hundred times. You will feel an impossible sense of synchronization with an artist. You got a point of inspiration exactly right, you felt like this somehow had something to do with Blade Runner and now you have the confirmation you needed. Validation. The sense of being seen in a cosmic sense. This should give you the motivation you need to listen to every other recording this man has ever made.
Key in that subsequent material is the track Propagation, off the second LP, Iteration. Now, for this one you are going to want to watch the movie Revolutionary Road, the Sam Mendes drama about a collapsing marriage in the 1950s. Ideally, you will have done this shortly after the film came out, in 2008.
Additionally, you will want to familiarise yourself with the works of Michael Crichton. Not his novels, his films. Watch Westworld with your father as a child. Two decades later, watch Looker, from 1981. None of these pieces of media are perfect, but they contain something. Some sense of sadness and oddness that doesn’t all click into place.
Now, you can watch the music video for Propagation. It will echo all of these things but perfect it. In a mere four minutes, everything good about all these disparate pieces of media will be encapsulated. Now whenever you hear the song, the odd melancholia of the music video will be impossibly vibrant in your mind.
Finally, start writing down all the dreams you have in notes on your phone. Do this for at least ten years. Then begin the process of transcribing everything you wrote into paper journals with a pen. While doing this transcription, listen to a massive playlist of all of Com Truise’s songs. Eventually, the song I Dream (For You) from In Decay, Too will play as you’re doing this and it will again, perfectly underscore your activities and you will feel and see your dreams so vividly, as though you were having them again.
To further cement this connection, buy a misprinted Com Truise mug from King’s Merch that has the logo upside down. Inform the store this happened and they will send you a second mug, with the logo correct side up. Now, use the upside down one at a soulless office job you have for at least seven years. It will become an important totem, a kind of subtle expression of how trapped you feel. The right side up mug you keep at your home is reserved for weekends, a reminder that they can never fully own you.
Finally, see Com Truise live in concert. You have arrived.
