Galactic Melt

Galactic Melt was produced by Haley for Ghostly International (GI-138) and released on June 5, 2011, though Resident Advisor says July. It runs 43:07 over ten tracks, with an iTunes bonus, "Karova", and a 10th anniversary edition that adds five more. Haley has described it as a sort of film score from the mind, chronicling the life and death of the first synthetic astronaut, as relayed in a summary of a Drowned in Sound piece we did not fetch. Resident Advisor's Andrew Ryce wrote that the most striking thing about it is its melancholy, and Beats Per Minute's Josh Becker heard more prominent percussion than on the EP, with especially aggressive beats on "Air Cal" and "Flightwave".

Metacritic scored it 71. Pitchfork's Mark Pytlik gave it 7.3, Spin 7 out of 10 and Mojo four stars; AllMusic's Andy Kellman wrote that it can be enjoyed in one-track doses or complete immersion.