Top 3 sodagreen albums

LITTLE UNIVERSE (2006)
The moment the bagpipes herald the opening track You Are, You Will signalled that this was the album on which sodagreen’s music world burst wide open. From the seething discontent on Little Universe to the innocence and purity of Little Love Song, the band plumb the different aspects of life with aplomb.
The album racked up seven nominations at the Golden Melody Awards and won two – for Best Band and Best Melody for Wu Ching-feng for Little Love Song.
Unfortunately, sodagreen rarely perform Little Love Song live anymore. They have performed it so many times that at one point, Wu asked those who requested it: “Aren’t you tired of it?”
The answer, of course, is no.

DAYLIGHT OF SPRING (2009)
In a nutshell, this is one of the best Mandopop albums – ever.
It is a gorgeous record which manages to capture the ephemeral beauty of spring and the hope it brings even as it embraces the shadows that light always casts. It reached No. 2 on Taiwan’s G-Music album chart.
Before The Snow Melts is oh-so-tender as it welcomes oncoming spring like a lover while there is joy and celebration in Daylight. For the delicate Stopping At Each Station, Wu flits between the higher and lower registers like the butterfly of the song. And Symphonic Dream casts a spell as it navigates between sleep and wakefulness, thirst and rain as well as waiting and arrival.
There were Golden Melody Award nominations for Best Band and Best Album Production. The song Daylight was also nominated for Best Arranger and won for Best Music Video.
Each track works on its own and all the tracks magically coalesce into a whole greater than the sum of their parts.

WHAT IS TROUBLING YOU (2011)
Even when they are at less than full strength, sodagreen continue to fire on all cylinders.
Because of guitarist A-fu’s national service stint, the band had to release an album without him. He is also absent from the album cover.
This is no mere filler album, though – one aural treat follows another. From the contemplative The Limits Of Happiness to the sweet duet with S.H.E’s Ella Chen, I Wrote Of You In My Song, from the moving ballad Enjoy Loneliness to the gospel-tinged title track, this is the sound of a band in confident form.
It topped the G-Music album chart and sodagreen notched up another nomination for Best Band at the Golden Melody Awards.
(ST)