Quiet Marauder
The Crack And What It Meant
Following on from their 111-song debut album, MEN (2013), and its considerably shorter follow-up, 11 Shades Of Love
(2015), Quiet Marauders third full album for Bubblewrap Collective is a conceptual narrative collaboration with Mathias
Kom of Canadian indie-pop wordsmiths The Burning Hell.
The Crack And What It Meant describes the emergence of a Crack in time and space in the rural suburbs of Kent and the
subsequent social panics, economic posturing, divisional blame games and global belief systems that arrive as a
consequence. Narrated by the deep drawl of Kom, the albums 30 tracks veer between short War Of The World synthscapes,
pop-folk balladry, post-ironic show tunes and shuffling indie-rock; all tied together by the multiple underlying
storylines. These include the death (and rebirth) of science, mass media antagonists, the ambivalent progress of global
capitalism, the opening (and closure) of The Cracks Costa Coffee franchise and the rise (and fall) of
tramp-turned-soothsayer Daniel alongside his burgeoning, prospering belief system.
Intertwining the complex high-concepts and broad instrumentation of Arcade Fire, with the warm, spiky melodicism of The
Wave Pictures and the wide-eyed, quick-witted lyricism of Vivian Stanshall, The Crack And What It Meant comes as a
limited edition CD with illustrated booklet and cut-out sleeve.
Price
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
26-04-2019
Label
Item-nr
525104
EAN
0768114203860
Availability
In stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
IT ARRIVED IN SILENCE
2
THE DISCOVERY
3
THE WHEELS FIRST INERTIA
4
THE PANIC
5
A BIT TOO FAMILIAR
6
WOULDNT THIS MAKE A GREAT EPISODE OF..?
7
ECONOMICS OF OPPORTUNITY
8
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
9
WE NEED MORE SIGNAGE AND MERCHANDISE
10
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
11
SHEESH! THE MILITARY ARE EXPENSIVE
12
LOGIC CHASES TAIL
13
WHAT HAPPENED TO SCIENCE?
14
LETS NOT TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE
15
THE WORD ON THE STREET
16
HOW TO MAKE A MILLION TRUTHS
17
THE BIRTH OF DANIEL
18
DANIEL DREAMS OF OTHER DIMENSIONS
19
REVOLUTIONS IN RELIGION
20
THE OLD FAITH WAS MISPLACED
21
THE NEW BELIEVERS
22
WIDESPREAD REPORTAGE
23
WE CAME IN DROVES.
24
SCIENCE STEPS FORTH
25
AND THEN EMPIRICISM SAID NO
26
THE STRAGGLERS
27
I CAME HERE TO CURE MY BALDNESS (BUT ALL I GOT WAS THIS T-SHIRT)
28
RUSTY SIGNS, DWINDLING CROWDS
29
BLESSED ARE THE DISCREDITED
30
THE CRACK AND WHAT IT MEANT
