Always Wandering

i have nearly 1000 followers so decided to force my weird music taste on you guys!! i haven’t managed to get into actual popular chinese music yet so here’s a little weird collection of artists that i found accidentally over time. (all on spotify unless specified)

also heres some better places on tumblr to get more in depth and wider ranging music recs: chinese lyrics, chinese indie, liu-anhuaming’s tag, love those languages post

waa wei

taiwanese singer, i saw her live at glastonbury and have been in love with her music since. her album 末路狂花 is so lovely and peaceful to listen to.

queen sea big shark (后海大鲨鱼)

probably my favourite chinese music. every album is so different they have chill indie, intense pop, electronic, just screaming, and more. quite a few songs in english too but think majority mandarin? the english ones are bops too so who cares.

faye wong

a real classic! has performed in both cantonese and mandarin over the years. covers a lot of genres so would recommend just checking out a mix of stuff and seeing what appeals to you.

aristophanes

another great taiwanese artist whose music is super different. if you can handle the betrayal of going back to grimes content the music video for SCREAM has chinese and english subtitles, if thats too much as you want’s mv has been reuploaded and that was how i was introduced to her.

hedgehog

these are a pretty classic well known indie band. i’ve definitely heard them playing around china, and i find their songs very chill, esp blue daydreaming.

jolin tsai

very famous taiwanese pop artist. i usually listen to her very dancy upbeat pop, but also she fucking killed me with this song so just. have a look and see.

陈粒

folk singer who covers tons of genres. has slower stuff, upbeat stuff, just lovely to listen to her voice. her album 玩 was released this year and is a good place to start to see her range.

dabozz

female rapper who does chilled out rnb and hip hop. i think her stuff appeals to a lot of people since she’s so relaxed and her background music isn’t too intense. she sings as well on some of her songs which is also v good.

honourary mentions and extras:

Phoebe Bridgers | Motion Sickness

Song : Girl Front

Artist : LOONA/ODD EYE CIRCLE 

Brisk dawn: a playlist that features some of my favourites of last year, kinda my soundtrack of 2018. 

particles -  nothing but thieves

starman - bowie 

immigrant song - led zeppelin

cypher 3 - agustd, rm, jhope

nocturne no. 2 in E-Flat Major, op. 9 no. 2 - chopin

pray - sam smith + logic

goodbye - apparat

in cold blood - alt-J

wilson (expensive mistakes) - fall out boy

river - bishop briggs

lose it - SWMRS

peach pit - peach pit

power - blow

sober - childish gambino 

idontwannabeyouanymore - billie eilish

my blood - twenty one pilots

i don’t even care about you - missio

1-800-273-8255 - logic, alessia cara + khalid

figure it out - royal blood

this was a home once - bad suns 

all the stars - kendrick lamar

mystery of love - sufjan stevens

neruda - lonepsi

the less i know the better - tame impala 

Delli Boe - Bisexual Problems