Dave Bry, a revered hip-hop journalist and editor, who died this month, encapsulated it all in his album review for Vibe, in 2000, commending the record for "capturing the zeitgeist of digital-age boom time America".
And what's nice about it is that it encapsulates all that colorful strength of 1980s design, but it does it in such a refined, contained way".
4. Belle and Sebastian - (I Believe In) Travellin' Light (from I'm A Cuckoo, 2004) I fell in love with this via their rarities album Third Eye Centre; it encapsulates all of the best bits of B&S, with prolific lyrics and their trademark sweetness.
M2's sheer respect for the source material is admirable, and the same can be said for the Strider reboot from Double Helix, as well as Obsidian's crowdfunded title Pillars of Eternity (read VICE's review feature, here) for the way it immaculately encapsulates all that was right about mid-'90s RPG gaming.
The scene is his star-making moment, and it encapsulates all the subversive pleasures promised by the black-and-white buddy movie at the outset, when it seemed possible that one of the characters might say or do something the audience would still be thinking about in the parking lot.
It all neatly encapsulates the culture clash between outspoken Yanks and too-polite-to-complain Brits.
A true legend of the tournament, he encapsulates the global feel to it all, a player who seems to exist outside of club football, coming into our lives every four years with a sick haircut and a series of superb set-pieces.
World of Warcraft encapsulates all this and more, making it the best MMORPG experience.
It's a word that encapsulates all that the Tuareg once had, but since have lost.
The TRANS_CTRL module encapsulates all the necessary logic that generates the control signaling for all other modules.
