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group

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Production

Recording of ''We Have You Surrounded'', began in November 2006 as a five song EP. The length of time since the band's last full-length, 2003's ''Dangerous Magical Noise'', led to the decision to finish it as an LP, once again postponing the band's long-planned

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record. Recording resumed in the summer of 2007, and ''We Have You Surrounded'' was released in February 2008. Far from being a bubblegum record, the album's themes are dark, based on

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's "Leopard Man at C & A'", which is described by Collins as "a fabulous take on urban paranoia". Two

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s were recorded for ''We Have you Surrounded''. The first being the new wave song "Sherlock Holmes", originally by the band Sparks from the album '' Angst in My Pants'' (1982). The second cover was of the song "Fire in the Western World" by the garage rock band

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. The cover illustration and lettering were done by

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Track listing

Personnel

* Ben Blackwell — Performer *

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— Producer, Performer *

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— Performer * Jim Kissling — Engineer, Mixing * Chris Koltay — Engineer * Erik Maluchnik — Engineer * Patrick Pantano — Performer * Ko Melina Zydeco — Performer

References

{{Authority control 2008 albums The Dirtbombs albums In the Red Records albums