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Everybody has that band they wish would always be around and would stay together forever. Such a thing is such an anomaly in music in general, let alone in hardcore. Surroundings are that band for me. Whether it was seeing them play Charm City Art Space with usual suspects Ruiner and Pulling Teeth or bumming out the Hellcat Records faithful in a strange opening slot for The Unseen, Surroundings were always as tight as ever and a force to be reckoned with.
Whether it was frontman Gavin Tucker pouring out his being into the microphone (or just a lot of sweat, dude was always SOAKED) or the crushing riffs of their twin guitar attack, the band destroyed everything in their path. They had the nastiest and ugliest bass tone this side of Suppression and obviously worshiped His Hero Is Gone and marijuana. If you got in the way of the wall of noise that was Surroundings, you may have in their own words have been "Crippled By The Gospel". Unfortunately even the brightest stars eventually supernova and internal issues caused the band to break up without an official last show.
This band's recorded output has an aging progression like wine, each passing year the records got better and better. From demo to to demise, not a bad track. Several members of Surroundings can be found in the shoegazey pop band, Wildhoney.
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