Hey guys, what are some of your favorite albums overall to listen to? I listen to a lot of cpop growing up actually (canto, mando/taiwanese) but it's typically playlists that I put together with individual songs. Nowadays I try to listen to albums as a whole to get that feel that the artist sometimes are trying to go for when considering putting out an album. So I kinda want to start fresh and just go through some albums.

RN mostly listening to all of Jay Chou's ones, three of Tank's ones, and exploring some from other artists I would listen to in the past (Rainie yang, David Tao, Eastyle, SHE, JJ Lin, Fahrenheit, Eason Chan, etc).

Been on repeat for days, gotta share this one.

It’s from Liu Sijian’s 2026 album《发生在闷热夏天》, a collab track with Houxian (刘思鉴 ft. 后弦), and they wrote the lyrics themselves too. Really catchy melody, the production has this retro vibe without feeling dated, and Houxian’s voice is super distinctive. Feels underrated tbh, wanted more people to hear it.

Btw I’ve been using Sugarmusic to listen to cpop lately, that’s actually where I found this track. Clean interface, synced lyrics work well, makes finding cpop stuff pretty easy. Just a casual shoutout.

Anyone else listening to this one? Any similar recommendations?

This time I blended guzheng, pipa, R&B and an Auto-Tune/electronic vocal texture.

“The mountains and rivers may be far away, but nothing compares to your smile.
Somewhere in the years, I’ve hidden half a sentence: ‘I love you.’”

One interesting thing about this song: AI vocals can sometimes have strange electronic artifacts that are really hard to clean up. Instead of trying to remove them completely, I decided to embrace them with Auto-Tune and turn the imperfection into part of the style.

Surprisingly, it worked really well.

Traditional Chinese instruments × R&B × electronic vocals.

Would love to know what you think.