{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2011}} {{Infobox song | name = You Surround Me | cover = Erasure - You Surround Me.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Erasure | album = Wild! | B-side = * "Supernature" * "91 Steps" | released = 27 November 1989<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Erasure&titel=You+Surround+Me|title=Erasure singles}}</ref> | recorded = January 1989 | studio = | venue = | genre = <!-- Do not add unsourced genres --> | length = 3:57 | label = Mute | writer = * Vince Clarke * Andy Bell | producer = * Gareth Jones * Mark Saunders * Erasure | prev_title = Drama! | prev_year = 1989 | next_title = Blue Savannah | next_year = 1990 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = | type = singles | cover = Erasure single supernature.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = Limited edition "Supernature" 12" single cover }} {{External music video|{{YouTube|rLqKiqaS-DU|"You Surround Me"}}}} }}

"'''You Surround Me'''" is a song by English synth-pop duo Erasure that was issued in November 1989 by Mute Records as the second single from the band's fourth studio album, ''Wild!'' (1989). Written by the duo's Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, it is a heavily synthesized ballad with a dramatic chorus featuring Bell's falsetto. Upon release, "You Surround Me" became Erasure's tenth consecutive top 20 hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #15. It reached #10 on the Irish singles chart, and became a top 40 hit in Germany, where it reached #38. The song was not released as a single in the United States.

==Critical reception== Ned Raggett from AllMusic declared "You Surround Me" as "another flat-out winner—it's another slow ballad, but with big, echoing backing that adds a sense of extra theatricality."<ref>{{cite web|first= Ned |last= Raggett |title= Erasure – ''Wild!'' |publisher= AllMusic |access-date= 2020-11-04 |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/wild%21-mw0000202225}}</ref> The Daily Vault's Michael R. Smith complimented it as "a techno ballad to die for and is just as intense as 'Drama'." He added, "It contains a cascading melody that simply glows. File this one under Overlooked Masterpieces."<ref>{{cite web|first= Michael R. |last= Smith |title= ''Wild!'' – Erasure |publisher= The Daily Vault |date= 2006-11-17 |access-date= 2020-11-20 |url= http://dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=4633}}</ref> Paul Lester from ''Melody Maker'' wrote, "Another odd choice for a single, 'You Surround Me' has a hookline so slender it's scarcely visible to the naked ear, and a beat that, next to all the great house and hip hop records available at present, is just too weak to count."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Paul|last=Lester|work=Melody Maker|title=Singles|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/51841473780/|date=1989-12-02|access-date=2023-02-24}}</ref> Chris Gerard from ''Metro Weekly'' named it "one of the duo's all-time great ballads", remarking that "it has real heart and feeling; it's unabashedly sentimental, but it feels completely genuine."<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Chris |last= Gerard |title= Erasure’s 40 Greatest Tracks |work= Metro Weekly |date= 2014-09-17 |access-date= 2020-11-21 |url= https://www.metroweekly.com/2014/09/erasures-40-greatest-tracks/}}</ref> Jaynie Senior from ''Number One'' described the song as "lush and fulsome".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Jaynie|last=Senior|title=Albums|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/47467753462/in/album-72157707938959804/|work=Number One|date=1989-10-18|page=43|accessdate=2023-01-02}}</ref> Christopher Smith from Talk About Pop Music viewed it as "a brooding number with Vince turning on the synths at maximum level while Andy remains in subdued restraint for the most part."<ref>{{cite web|first= Christopher |last= Smith |title= Review: 'Wild!’ – Erasure |publisher= Talk About Pop Music |date= 2019-10-16 |access-date= 2020-11-21 |url= https://talkaboutpopmusic.com/2019/10/16/review-wild-erasure/}}</ref>

==Music video== A music video was made to accompany the song. It features Clarke and Bell performing on a three-level circular stage set, with cityscapes superimposed at various points during the song through a mixture of chroma key and ordinary vision mixing.

==Track listings== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} * '''7" single''' (MUTE99) / Cassette single (CMUTE99) # "You Surround Me" # "91 Steps"

* '''12" single''' (12MUTE99) / CD single (CDMUTE99) # "You Surround Me" (Syrinx Mix) # "Supernature" # "91 Steps" (+24 Mix) {{col-2}} * '''Limited 12" single''' (L12MUTE99) / Limited CD single (LCDMUTE99) # "You Surround Me" (Remix) # "Supernature" (William Orbit Mix) # "91 Steps" (6 Pianos Mix)

* '''Limited "Supernature" 12" single''' (XL12MUTE99) # "Supernature" (Daniel Miller & Phil Legg Mix) # "You Surround Me" (Gareth Jones Mix) # "Supernature" (Mark Saunders Mix) {{col-end}}

==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Chart (1989) !Peak<br>position !Total<br>weeks |- |align="left"|Denmark (IFPI)<ref>Danish Singles Chart. 8 December 1989.</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|5 | style="text-align:center;"| |- |Iceland<ref>{{cite magazine|date=2 February 1990|title=Ísland Top 10|url=https://timarit.is/page/2567895?iabr=on#page/n25/mode/2up/search/erasure|magazine=DV|page=34|issn=1021-8254}}</ref> |align="center"|8 |- |align="left"|Ireland (IRMA)<ref>{{cite web|first=Jaclyn|last=Ward|url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/ |title=The Irish Charts&nbsp;– All there is to know |publisher=Irishcharts.ie |date=1962-10-01 |access-date=2012-03-16}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|10 | style="text-align:center;"|5 |- |align="left"|UK Singles (OCC)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/ |title=UK Singles & Albums Official Charts Company |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=2012-03-16}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|15 | style="text-align:center;"|9 |- |align="left"|West Germany (Official German Charts)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicline.de/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961224082123/http://www.musicline.de/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 December 1996 |title=Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche |publisher=musicline.de |access-date=2012-03-16}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|38 | style="text-align:center;"|10 |- |}

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