''Triangle'' (officially published and stylized as the

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''⊿'', pronounced ) is the title of the second original studio album of Japanese

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. ''Triangle'' was officially announced at Perfume's ''Disco!Disco!Disco!'' concert, and was released on July 8, 2009 as a CD-only version and limited edition CD+DVD version, which featured promotional music videos and live performances. ''Triangle'' was released seven weeks after

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's effort with

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, '' Beautiful''. Despite selling lower than their first original album, ''

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'', ''Triangle'' was certified platinum by

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for selling over 250,000 copies.

Overview

The first track, "Take off" is a less than one minute instrumental. It plays the role as the introduction of the whole album and leads to the second song, "

love the world "Love the World" (stylized as "love the world") is Perfume's 7th major single. It was released on July 9, 2008 and debuted at number one on the Oricon chart, becoming the first electropop song from an electropop act to do so, Yellow Magic Orchest ...

, the seventh major single. "

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" is the eighth major single. The next song "edge (⊿-mix)" is the

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song from the single "love the world". This mix is over eight minutes and a little longer than the extended mix in the single. "NIGHT FLIGHT" is an 80's technopop-like song, which features a chopper bass. It was used in ads for

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's Pino Airlines campaign. Like the concept of the ads, the lyrics compare love with airplane flying. "Kiss and Music" is an R&B and hip hop influenced song. "Zero Gravity" is an electronic house song which features an electric piano. "I Still Love U" is an 80's Japanese idol R&B-pop-like song. It received an exclusive video, available on the limited edition DVD. "The best thing" is the ninth track of the album which was described as

's (producer of Perfume) signature sound with arpeggios and a house track. "Speed of Sound" is a Latin trance-house-like song which has few words (similar to

's song Make Love). " One Room Disco" is the ninth major single. The finale is "Negai (Album-mix)". The song originally was a low-tempo ballad song in the b-side of "Dream Fighter", but in the album, the song features more strings, and is arranged to be more orchestral. The exclusive promotional video for "I Still Love U" features Perfume dressed in white against a white background, singing to the camera entirely in a one-shot, profile-height video. The video features a very low

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, significantly blurring anything too close to the foreground or background. As they sit down for the final minute or so of the video, the girls start to break down laughing from pain as they receive foot massages off screen; all of them try hard to, and eventually regain, their composure. Their laughter can be heard as the screen cuts to black. The B-side track of "One Room Disco" ("23:30") was not included in this album.

Track listing

Personnel

From All Music.com. * Iku Aoki - Director * Kohei Furumai - Executive Producer * Tatsuro Hatanaka - Supervisor * Nomura Hiroshi - Photography * Sumio Matsuzaki - Supervisor * Kiyoe Mizusawa - Design Coordinator * Masahiro Nakawaki - Director * Ayaka "A-Chan" Nishiwaki - Group Member * Yuka "Kashiyuka" Kashino - Group Member * Ayano "Nocchi" Omoto - Group Member * Yokichi Osato - Supervisor * Masako Osuga - Make-Up * Kazuaki Seki - Art Direction * Yuki Shimajiri - Hair Stylist * Masahiro Shinoki - Executive Producer * Hirose Shiraishi - Executive Producer * Ken Uchizawa - Stylist * Yasutaka Nakata - Arranger, Composer, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer * Mayuko Yuki - Design

Charts

Certifications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Triangle (Perfume Album) 2009 albums Japanese-language albums Tokuma Shoten albums Perfume (Japanese band) albums Albums produced by Yasutaka Nakata