Vinyl LP pressing including digital download. 2013 release from the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter. In the time since Our Blood was released and after a few long tours Richard Buckner attempted to work on writing short stories but found himself drawn back into the music room. The evidence of his time in the writer s chair is clear in the dense lovely prose of Surrounded. The album s liner notes include text-embedded lyrics a technique Buckner employed on his earlier albums Since and Impasse but this marks the first time he used the songs extended story to construct the album s overall view and track sequence.