落日飛車 Sunset Rollercoaster - 悄悄消消 Quit Quietly (Vinyl Edition) [PRE-ORDER, RESTOCK Release Date: EARLY APRIL-2026]

The Sun Still Sets Today The Wind Still Blows Tomorrow Eleven pop songs for eleven stops on a long music journey. The growth that comes from remembering and letting go. Is QUIT QUIETLY a gentle farewell? Or the start of a new beginning? “We’ve quite literally driven the Sunset Rollercoaster beneath sunsets all over the world.” Since winning the Golden Melody Award for Best Band in 2021, Sunset Rollercoaster has continued to embody their belief that music is my service. In the five years since the release of their critically acclaimed album SOFT STORM, the band has never once slowed down. Fueled by passion and talent, this five-seat ride has carried them across continents, as they keep pushing forward, sharing their sound and spirit with audiences around the globe. In 2023, they made their debut at Coachella, ushering in a new era of recognition. In 2024, they joined forces with South Korea’s celebrated indie band HYUKOH to release the ambitious collaborative album AAA, followed by an expansive tour. With each step, they’ve shattered the conventional limits of independent bands both in ambition and achievement. They also completed the compilation Infinity Sunset, launched the Sunset Town Music Festival, and contributed to albums by artists on their Sunset Music Productions label. On their unique path, Sunset Rollercoaster continues to lead the way. To outsiders, everything seems on track, successful, and full of promise. But deep in the heart of lead singer Guoguo, a quiet question remains: “Objectively speaking, I now have everything I ever wanted—family, a fulfilling relationship, and personal achievement. I've made progress toward every meaningful, positive goal. And yet, I still wonder: is this really the ultimate meaning of life?” Through confusion, awakening, endings, and letting go, the changes and struggles brought on by growth are all woven into the music for comfort and healing. Thus was born QUIT QUIETLY, an album of serene soundscapes, quietly carrying the most intimate of secrets. ＊ Sunset Rollercoaster’s fourth album, QUIT QUIETLY, arrived quite quietly without warning on August 8, unveiling five years’ worth of music. Continuing the mirrored initials of VANILLA VILLA (VV) and SOFT STORM (SS), the title’s QQ carries the band’s signature wit, while subtly foreshadowing the melancholic undercurrent that runs through the album. The journey of QUIT QUIETLY began in 2023 with the recording of its first track, “Satellite.” In February 2025, the band reconvened for four months of intensive sessions, shaping all eleven tracks together at their home base, MoriSound Studio in Banqiao, New Taipei City. In March, they also traveled to Japan for a focused five-day retreat at Studio Dede, where recording and creative development continued in earnest. Before recording began, the songs were already in a highly developed state, so not a single day in the studio was wasted trying to figure things out. “There was always more to do each day,” Guoguo said. “Sometimes a song just didn’t feel good enough yet, and we had to make it better. The songs were already there, and once we knew what made them work, we could chase it.” QUIT QUIETLY focuses more on storytelling than Sunset Rollercoaster’s past releases. The atmosphere serves the narrative, not the other way around. Each song reveals a distinct world through its lyrics and sound. With a wider range of voices and perspectives, the album offers a sense of universality that invites anyone to find a part of themselves in it. This has to do with Guoguo’s development as a musician. He says he feels less and less like a “band guy.” These days, he prefers starting songs alone, singing and playing acoustic guitar. “I used to build full-fledged demos with drums, synths, and bass,” he says. “But now I just like keeping it to one acoustic guitar. Me and my guitar. With that limitation, the idea behind the song has to be solid.” Production-wise, QUIT QUIETLY returns to the approach they used on their debut album BOSSA NOVA, built on the close collaboration between Guoguo and recording engineer Yuchain Wang. At the same time, the album features contributions from musician friends they’ve connected with over years of traveling and performing internationally. Guest vocals from Oh Hyuk and Anpu, backing harmonies from Leah Dou and the Bulareyaung Dance Company, string arrangements by Owen Wang, and even instruments borrowed from Yuma Abe of Never Young Beach all found their way into the record. “This is an album full of love,” Guoguo said. “These are friends I’ve met through life and music. Everyone came by to share ideas, hang out in the studio, and create together.” ＊ During the songwriting period for QUIT QUIETLY, Guoguo revisited the books he loved during his university and graduate school years. He picked up full collections of Kafka and Walter Benjamin, discovering new meanings that felt closer than before, even a quiet sense of kinship. Around the same time, he also fell back in love with Elliott Smith. “The last time I really listened to Elliott Smith was probably in 2010,” he said. “Back then, I just felt overwhelmed by the sadness, without knowing exactly where it came from. Now I understand it a little more.” Melancholy runs through QUIT QUIETLY, casting a monotone filter over Sunset Rollercoaster’s usually colorful mix. It feels like those vibrant layers have been placed on the frame of a man in his late thirties. The arrangements are stripped down as well, leaving out intros, outros, skits, and features, focusing only on solid songwriting. “I put my personal reflections into the songs, but I didn’t overwork them to shape them into a concept album. In the end, I just wrote eleven pop songs, all for singing along to.” During the arrangement process, Guoguo and Yuchain Wang would list out their favorite Western classics and study the forms of genres like dream pop and psychedelic rock. This helped shape each of the eleven tracks with its own character, without repetition. At the same time, the songs trace back to their roots, aligning the band’s lyrics, melodies, and vocal delivery into a unified whole. The opening track, “Wind of Tomorrow,” offers a farewell to people and memories from the past, gently encouraging listeners not to fear what lies ahead, echoing the Japanese proverb, “The Wind Still Blows Tomorrow.” Following that, “Humor Tumour” draws from a benign angioma diagnosis, using humor to face the unpredictability of daily life. The brisk and compact “Believe U” weaves in classic jazz chord progressions, while “Mistakes” turns toward regret and reflection, using a looping arrangement that gradually builds in scale and intensity, marking the beginning of the album’s second half. The psychedelic space rock track “Charon’s Gone,” co-written with drummer Tsun Long, reflects on the push-and-pull orbit between Pluto and its moon Charon. “Piccolo Amore” observes the emotional life of a loving owner through the eyes of a Piccolo Levriero Italiano. With backing vocals from the Bulareyaung Dance Company, “Grow” imagines an alien romance inspired by a myth from the Ketagalan people. “Everything I Have” takes cues from British soul, exploring the quiet tension between letting go and holding on after having it all. “Satellite,” featuring backing vocals from Leah Dou, is a drifting elegy for Laika, the first Soviet space dog. “Bluebird” distills the essence of Britpop, with elegant chord progressions and vividly expressive lyrics. The closing track, “Fading Out,” reconnects with the signature structure of “My Jinji,” using subtle key changes and melodic turns to mark the end of a long, fading journey with no return. “It’s not that I’ve let go or become enlightened, like becoming a monk. Not at all. I’m still going against the current, always against the current, carrying this aging body of mine,” Guoguo said. For him, “Fading Out” marks a shift in creative consciousness, a transition into a new phase. QUIT QUIETLY is not a farewell. It’s about indulging in a personal music feast. Having pushed the band as far as it could go, he opened a new path in songwriting. After all, The Sun Still Sets Today, The Wind Still Blows Tomorrow. As long as the music plays again, there will always be a chance to meet the friends made along the way.