| Surrounded | |
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| Origin | Vaxjo, Sweden |
| Genres | Indie rock, Alternative rock, Space rock |
| Years active | 2000 - present |
| Labels | One Little Indian, Make My Day Records, Deep Elm |
| Members | |
| Marten Rydell Marcus Knutsson Tom Malmros Johannes Linder Erik Gustafson |
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| Past members | |
| Emil Petersson Fredrik Solfors Jesper Petersson |
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Surrounded are an alternative rock/space rock band from Vaxjo, Sweden, who have been described as "Sweden's answer to the Flaming Lips".[1]
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The band was formed in 2000 by Marten Rydell (vocals, guitar) and Marcus Knutsson (guitar), with Emil Petersson (keyboards, sampling), Fredrik Solfors (drums), and Jesper Petersson (bass) soon added to the lineup.[2] With influences ranging from Meddle-era Pink Floyd, The Flaming Lips, and Neil Young, the band were included on The Emo Diaries, Vol. 9, before their debut album, Safety in Numbers, was released in 2003 by Deep Elm Records.[2]
A second album, The Nautilus Years, was issued in 2007, the band now signed to large indie label One Little Indian, and Rydell and Knutson now joined by Tom Malmros (bass), Johannes Linder (drums) and Erik Gustafson (keyboards).[3] The album was recorded in a summerhouse in a forest in southern Sweden, and received positive critical reviews, with Drowned in Sound calling it "a work of such understated, almost casual beauty that it would be a crime for it to go unnoticed".[4] Crawdaddy! said of the album "this stuff is so perfectly engineered to be pleasurable it’s hard to find any specific weak points".[5]
The band's style has been described as "a rare hybrid of shoegazing and Americana".[6] Comparisons have been made with several bands including The Flaming Lips, Doves,[7] and Super Furry Animals.[8]