Where is the love for Capsule?

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I searched for another thread but gave up after the sixth page of results, so I apologize in advance if there is already a thread about Capsule with three answers buried deep in the archives. It's not as though they're from Polynesia or some other locale not traditionally known for its electronic music--Japanese pop, and especially the kind of ultra-cool Japanese pop that both bands traffic in to varying degrees, has always gotten, and continues to get, a fair amount of attention, if maybe not the amount of attention it deserves. The most obvious comparison would be Pizzicato Five based on their aesthetic and their first couple of albums, but the new record is positively massive for much of its length, an adjective I can't imagine using in relation to P5. Yet, despite being by all appearances one of those rare J-pop groups with enough substance to prop up their miles of style, I can't even buy their records in the U.S. Which begs the question, where is the love for Capsule? Or am I the only person who feels this way? There wasn't much love for Perfume here either, if I recall correctly.

owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

For me, what little Capsule I chased down was just an excuse to revisit my obsession with J-Pop and so-called Shibya-Kei from the mid-to-late 90s without playing songs that I've long wore out. I do like it, but rarely in the mood these days.

PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

So CAPS LOCK isn't a banger-loaded exercise in hard technopop, it's a bright, relatively subtle electronic dextrous pop workout. Whodathunk? Liking it!

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 20:14 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

Yeah, even though it's sometimes a bummer that they don't stick to a straight path (they could've remade new configurations of MORE MORE MORE for the rest of their career and I'd've been happy), I appreciate their mutability and willingness to try new stuff.

It blows my mind that this thread barely exists. Easily one of the best bands of the past decade.

Blood Ass IV: Blood Fling (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 17:50 (twelve years ago)


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