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Browse piano sheets by Surfaces on Zen Virtual Piano. Surfaces is a Texas-based band that came together online around Forrest Frank and Colin Padalecki. Both were raised in Texas towns, with Frank hearing some of Padalecki’s early work on Soundcloud. Colin Padalecki came to Aggieland as a pole-vaulter on the track team who majored in management information systems. By the time he graduated he had co-founded Surfaces. A Soundcloud discovery, beside a co-founder who studied management information systems, may point to members with different starting points. After meeting, the new friends spent the next year writing and producing, and decided to release a debut single, “Be Alright,” in 2017. Frank says they had no management at the time, so they booked their own five-show tour and drove around with everything loaded into Padalecki’s car. In January 2019 Surfaces was still unsigned and unmanaged when it released “Sunday Best” as the lead single ahead of its second album for 10K Projects, “Where the Light Is.” A five-show tour booked by the band itself, beside an unsigned release in 2019, may suggest a group handling much of its own work. Surfaces says Elton John loved “Sunday Best” and wanted to work with the band, and that Elton John was in Australia and could not stop listening to the song. Billboard called the group a Texas-based electro-pop duo of Forrest Frank and Colin Padalecki and reported that it had a breakout year in 2020, thanks to “Sunday Best.” An unsigned single in 2019, beside a breakout year in 2020, may point to two stages in the group’s public profile. Surfaces says its members trade off on songwriting and are usually in the same room, spinning ideas with each other until it all blends in. The band’s music blends surf music, jazz, soul, pop rock, hip hop, reggae and calypso. Surfaces says people sometimes think the band is living in ignorant bliss, but the members have experienced genuine hardships, and that is where the music comes from. The five-show tour that the band booked itself, set beside the songwriting room its members share, shows the members working side by side in two quite different settings.

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Who is Surfaces?

Surfaces is a Texas-based band that came together online around Forrest Frank and Colin Padalecki.

How did Surfaces come together?

Surfaces came together online, after Frank heard some of Padalecki’s early work on Soundcloud, and both were raised in Texas towns.

What did Elton John say about Surfaces?

Surfaces says Elton John loved “Sunday Best” and wanted to work with the band.

How does Surfaces write songs?

Surfaces says its members trade off on songwriting, usually in the same room, spinning ideas with each other until it all blends in.