The introspective Getting Dark After making it through the tough times, in 2004 Lin, his writing partner Zhong, and three other musicians formed a new band called Sheng Xiang and Water 3. That year, they also released their album Getting Dark, which concerns the lives of laborers in the city.
走出低潮後的林生祥，2004 年和鍾永豐，與其他 3 名新團員組成了「生祥與瓦窯坑 3」，並在同年發表了以都市勞工生活為主角的《臨暗》專輯。