今天會有今天的落日
明天會有明天的風吹

11 首 Pop Songs，11 種經典曲式
11 步奉獻所有給音樂的漫漫長路

回憶與盡頭，成長與領悟
QUIT QUIETLY 是一句寧靜的告別
或者下一段旅途的開始？

「我們真的開了一台車，乘著夕陽去了世界很多地方，這台車就叫做落日飛車。」用音樂與世界對話的落日飛車，在 2021 年獲得金曲獎「最佳樂團」後持續實踐「music is my service」的敬業精神。距離獲獎專輯《SOFT STORM》發行這五年來，他們未有半刻暫歇，續以熱情與才華為燃料，發動這台五人座飛車前行。

2023 年他們首度登上國際音樂節 Coachella，並在 2024 和 HYUKOH 推出《AAA》大製作專輯及巡演計畫，一次次打破獨立樂團的經營規則與成績限制，同時也陸續完成《夕陽無限好聽》合輯、夕陽小鎮音樂節、夕陽音樂廠牌藝人專輯⋯⋯等作品，在獨特的賽道上一「車」當先。

外人看樂團風光、成就非凡，主唱國國心中卻有疑惑：「我生命中什麼都不缺了。有親情，有修成正果的愛情，有自我實現，一切對於人有意義的正面目標我都有所前進，但也會質疑，這就是最後的意義嗎？」

迷惘、醒悟、終結與看破，一路上因為成長體會到的改變與掙扎，盡數交返音樂撫慰。一張樂音祥和，卻也藏了最多秘密的專輯就此誕生。

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落日飛車第四張專輯《QUIT QUIETLY》於 8 月 8 日無預警發行，收錄他們過去五年的創作。命名呼應《VANILLA VILLA》、《SOFT STORM》的 VV、SS 對仗風格，直至 QQ 階段既有飛車式的幽默感，也早早暗示此輯的感傷調性。

《QUIT QUIETLY》從 2023 年概念初生錄下〈Satellite〉後，直到 2025 年 2 月開始，再與團員維持四個月密集錄音、整合 11 首曲目。除了新北板橋的「主場錄音室」MoriSound Studio，他們也在三月飛抵日本 Studio Dede 進行五天四夜的錄音與創作。

過程中詞曲都是高完成度的，沒有任何一天錄音卡關浪費掉。國國說：「每天來都有做不完的事，可能這首歌不夠好，要讓它變更好。因為歌已經有了，知道好在哪就可以追。」

《QUIT QUIETLY》比起飛車過去的作品敘事性更高，不只是做氣氛，也重視故事文本，深度聆聽詞曲細節會發現每首歌的獨特意境，在人稱選擇上也有更多視角，具普世帶入感。

這與國國近年的變化有關，他自認越來越不像一位 band guy，寫歌更喜歡自己從木吉他彈唱開始發展，坦言：「以前 demo 還會做很多繽紛的編曲，鼓、合成器跟貝斯，但我現在只喜歡剩一把木吉他，me and my guitar。因為有限制，所以寫歌概念要變得很具體（solid）。」

製作上，《QUIT QUIETLY》雖回到第一張《BOSSA NOVA》的方法，由國國跟錄音師老王兩人緊密完成，卻也多了這幾年漫遊國際結識的音樂友人助陣，諸如：吳赫及安溥助陣配唱、竇靖童及布拉瑞揚舞團的和聲、王希文的弦樂編曲，以及從 Never Young Beach 主唱安部勇磨那借來的樂器⋯⋯等。一切緣分讓他直呼：「這張很有愛，都是我歷練過後的朋友們，大家都有來給意見，來錄音室玩，一起做音樂。」

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《QUIT QUIETLY》的寫歌創作期，國國回頭複習了大學研究所時期喜歡的讀物，買整套卡夫卡、班雅明看，產生不同於年輕時的理解，甚至感到欣欣相惜。同時他也再度愛上 Elliot Smith：「上次聽可能是 2010 年，那時候覺得好憂鬱喔，不知道憂鬱在哪，但感受很強烈。現在就比較懂那個憂鬱在哪。」

憂鬱，整張《QUIT QUIETLY》色彩因此偏向 monotone，灰濛濛的，彷彿把飛車式的繽紛混音披掛在三十七、八歲的男人骨架上。手法亦拋棄 intro、outro、skit、feature 等花俏設計，只留下扎實寫出的一首首歌：「我把體悟融入到創作裡，但這張沒有做得很用力，沒有變成一張概念專輯。我最後就是寫十一首 pop songs，每一首都是『流行歌』。」

編曲時，他與老王會羅列心目中的西洋經典歌曲，解析夢幻流行、迷幻搖滾⋯⋯等類型曲式，讓十一首歌的特質各不重複，又紛紛奔往根源，和飛車的詞、曲、演唱達到「形質合一」的境界。

開場〈Wind of Tomorrow〉向故人往事道別，並以日式諺語「明天會有明天的風吹」勉勵不要害怕；接續〈Humor Tumour〉取材良性血管瘤的檢查報告，用幽默感應對無常的日常。速度感小品〈Believe U〉融入經典爵士和弦進行；直到〈Mistakes〉面對生命中的懊悔，以循環式編曲帶來線性增幅效果，越到後段越感壯闊，開啟專輯後半篇章。

太空迷幻曲〈Charon's Gone〉與鼓手尊龍合寫，敘述冥王星與其衛星冥衛一（Charon）若即若離的軌道關係；〈Piccolo Amore〉從義大利靈緹犬的視角，觀察親密主人的情感生活；找來布拉瑞揚舞團和聲的〈Grow〉，從凱達格蘭民族神話延伸出一段外星羅曼史；〈Everything I Have〉向英式靈魂樂取經，內省擁有一切之後該放下或追求的命題。

邀請竇靖童和聲的〈Satellite〉，是獻給第一隻蘇聯太空狗萊卡的漂流輓歌；〈Bluebird〉則萃取英倫搖滾精華，和弦走法精妙、詞作用色繽紛；銜接收場曲〈Fading Out〉再展〈My Jinji〉飛車經典曲式，巧妙的轉調與音階設計，宣讀一段淡出不復返的無盡旅程。

「不是豁達了、看開了，跟出家一樣。沒有，我還是逆流而上，持續逆流而上，帶著我衰老的軀幹，衰老的軀體。」國國說，〈Fading Out〉代表自己的創作意識脫胎到下個階段。因此《QUIT QUIETLY》不是告別，而是款待自我的音樂盛宴。在把樂團遊戲破關後，仍不從創作上撤退。畢竟今天會有今天的落日，明天會有明天的風吹，只要音樂再度響起，定能有緣相會。

【歌曲介紹】

1.〈Wind of Tomorrow〉
要離開喜愛的事情很難，但還是要勇敢。受到日文諺語「明天會有明天的風吹」影響，國國寫下這首專輯開場曲，在惆悵與釋懷間，唱了所有想講的話，不多也不少。

2.〈Humor Tumour〉
國國在健康檢查時發現肝臟有兩顆腫瘤，一開始很緊張，後來發現是良性的血管瘤，只需要定期追蹤就好。愛看脫口秀的他，用幽默感應對身上的瘤，並以鏡像式的段落接法（主歌、副歌、C 段、副歌、主歌）完成這首歌。

3.〈Believe U〉
歌名本來叫 Believe Me，在與品牌合作後改成了更適合的 Believe U。作為專輯裡的「動感擔當」，音樂上帶有 The Whitest Boy Alive 的色調，並在爵士經典行進裡設計貫穿全曲的貝斯音階。

4.〈Mistakes〉
歌名中譯不是「錯誤」而是「過錯」。長大過程人人都會犯錯，可與其懊悔，不如面對並學習才能得到解脫。以循環的旋律、線性成長的編曲，創造更多層次，在反覆的過錯裡詮釋「move on」的哲理。

5.〈Charon's Gone〉
與尊龍合寫的太空漫遊迷幻曲，描述冥王星與其衛星冥衛一（Charon），因為質量過小導致的若即若離軌道關係。主歌兩段一去一回，在重返的過程裡彷彿每次的問題都獲得解決。

6.〈Piccolo Amore〉
唱過法文、日文，飛車這次試著唱義大利文，就連英文也刻意模仿義大利腔。從義大利靈緹犬（Piccolo Levriero Italiano）視角，側記主人貪心的情感生活，結尾反覆輪唱「I wanna be your dog」的美好幻想。

7.〈Grow〉
國國將凱達格蘭族的七星堆傳說，延伸成一段外星人的羅曼史，因此找了推廣原住民文化的「布拉瑞揚舞團」參與和聲。概念和〈VANILLA VILLA〉相呼應，是想念的力量讓外星人願能長成一棵樹，往那顆太陽的高處不斷生長。

8.〈Everything I Have〉
擁有之後就該滿足與放下嗎？或許也不盡然要。與〈Greedy〉對仗的〈Everything I Have〉透過英式靈魂樂風，反思成就達到之後，下一步的目標與人生的意義。為開場的道別與悔意，開啟另一道思考的路徑。

9.〈Satellite〉
專輯在 2023 年最早錄製的歌曲，獻給蘇聯在 1957 年第一隻派上太空的狗狗萊卡。萊卡漂流宇宙且注定無法回來的哀傷，在國國與竇靖童的共唱之中成為一曲靈動的小調輓歌。

10.〈Bluebird〉
擋不住的愛意是一隻飛往天空的布魯鳥。〈Bluebird〉乍聽是將英倫搖滾從披頭四到基音樂團的特色，弄縮成三分半的流行曲調，卻在和弦上藏有兩次主歌走法相反的巧思，成為一首「編曲花式上籃」的音樂人之禮。

11.〈Fading Out〉
飛車招牌循環曲式的集大成之作，重複的演奏隨著音樂的推進、情緒的必然，和點點細節的調整不斷變化。轉調之後只改了一個音的貝斯、懸著無法徹底落地的和弦編法，塑造「穩又不穩」的體感。就像人生成就達成、進入下個階段，還是有無盡的旅程要走。

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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.

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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.”

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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.

【Track-by-Track】
1. “Wind of Tomorrow”
It’s hard to part with something you love, but you still have to be brave. Inspired by the Japanese proverb “The Wind Still Blows Tomorrow,” Guoguo wrote this opening track between sorrow and acceptance, singing everything he wanted to say, no more, no less.
2. “Humor Tumour”
During a health checkup, Guoguo discovered two tumors on his liver. At first he was anxious, but later learned they were benign hemangiomas that only needed regular monitoring. A fan of stand-up comedy, he used humor to face the growths in his body. The song uses a mirrored structure: verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, verse, echoing the paronomasia play on words in its title.
3. “Believe U”
The original title was “Believe Me,” but was later changed to “Believe U” after a brand collaboration, making it a better fit. As the most upbeat track on the album, the song carries the feel of The Whitest Boy Alive, built around a walking bassline that runs through classic jazz progressions.
4. “Mistakes”
In Mandarin, the title translates closer to “making a mistake” than simply “a mistake.” Everyone makes mistakes growing up, but rather than dwell in regret, facing them and learning from them is the only way to move forward. Built on a looping melody and a steadily growing arrangement, the song adds depth and texture to express the idea of moving on through repeated faults.
5. “Charon’s Gone”
Co-written with drummer Tsun-Lung, this psychedelic space rock track tells the story of Pluto and its moon Charon, whose orbit keeps them close but never fully together due to their uneven mass. The two verses move out and back again, as if each return brings a quiet resolution to what came before.
6. “Piccolo Amore”
After singing in French and Japanese, Sunset Rollercoaster experiments with Italian for the first time, even shaping the English lyrics with an Italian accent. Told from the perspective of a Piccolo Levriero Italiano, the song observes the flirtatious affairs of its affectionate owner. It ends with a repeated line, “I wanna be your dog,” an endearing fantasy.
7. “Grow”
Guoguo adapted a Ketagalan legend about the Qixing Mountain Giant Stones into a story of romance between aliens, and invited the Bulareyaung Dance Company, known for promoting Indigenous culture, to contribute backing vocals. The concept echoes VANILLA VILLA: the power of longing drives an alien to become a tree, growing steadily upward toward the distant sun.
8. “Everything I Have”
Does having everything mean it's time to be satisfied and let go? Maybe not. Echoing “Greedy” from CASSANOVA, “Everything I Have” reflects on what comes after achievement, through the sound of British soul. It opens another path of thought, following the early themes of farewell and regret in QUIT QUIETLY.

9. “Satellite”
The earliest song recorded for QUIT QUIETLY in 2023, “Satellite” is dedicated to Laika, the first dog sent into space by the Soviet Union in 1957. Her lonely, irreversible drift through the cosmos is transformed into a tender minor-key elegy, sung together by Guoguo and Leah Dou.
10. “Bluebird”
Unstoppable love takes flight like a bluebird in the sky. On first listen, “Bluebird” condenses the spirit of Britpop, from The Beatles to Blur, into a three-and-a-half-minute pop tune. Hidden in its chord progressions are two inversely written verses, a clever detail that turns the song into a musician’s nod to the art of arrangement.

11. “Fading Out”
A culmination of Sunset Rollercoaster’s signature looping structure, “Fading Out” evolves through repetition, shifting with emotion and subtle changes in detail. After a key change, the bass alters by only one note, and the chords never quite resolve, creating a feeling of stability that’s always slightly off balance. Like reaching a life milestone and stepping into a new phase, the journey ahead still feels endless.