

Super sweet and blessed with a sparkling clean tone, La Ong Fong tracks play like a crossover between 1950s lounge pop and the theme from an anime about a delightfully mismatched high-school clique—which is to say theyre unbelievably infectious. The Thai band's roots stem from a singing contest in the late '80s, and they hit their stride in the mid-'90s with a coquettish and smooth album debut in 1996. Since then, they've only further cultivated their sunshine-drenched sound, worthy of repeated listens via this playlist.