ARTiST: Surrounded
ALBUM: The Nautilus Years
BiTRATE: 190kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: One Little Indian
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 73 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 51min 00sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-01-16
STORE DATE: 2008-03-30
Track List:
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01. 21st Century Paradise Traveller 4:30
02. Safe Tomorrow Sun 3:25
03. In Comfort's Tight Clothes 5:02
04. Short Red Blinks 3:51
05. Paper Tangerine Crush 3:40
06. The Oceanographer 3:12
07. Fellow Citizen Stars 3:30
08. Human Pelagic 10:21
09. Bolder Acrobat 4:31
10. Easy Piranhas 4:29
11. Swimming To Galapagos 4:29
Release Notes:
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Masters of the celestial epic, SURROUNDED creates atmospheres of fragile beauty
by blending surrealist lyrics, mournful melodies, orchestral flourishes and
spacey experimentalism with a subtle, cinematic sway from lo-fi to hi-fi.
Encompassing a strangely beautiful rainbow of sound and emotion that twinkles
beneath layers of cello, mellotron, radio chatter and synthesizers, their debut
SAFETY IN NUMBERS envelops the listener with an entrancing collection of songs
that range from the innocent to the insane, the troubled to the tender, the
sweet to the sad.
It's the sharp drumming, smart guitars and steady basslines that add just the
right depth to each miniature symphony, helping to maintain focus on the band's
rock foundation. A kindred spirit to The Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse and Mercury
Rev, vocalist Marten Rydell pours his cryptic heart into each song, poignantly
exploring the human condition through lyrical metaphors including kitten
murders, plastic autocrats, brainwash mags, flattering clowns and crowds of
apes.
Remote industrial towns of the western world have long been regarded at the
perfect soil for artistic breeding. Few bands epitomize this more accurately
than Vaxjo, Sweden's SURROUNDED.