The Crack And What It Meant, by Quiet Marauder

The Crack And What It Meant

by Quiet Marauder

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1.	Prologue: It Arrived In Silence 02:36	buy track
2.	The Discovery 02:56	buy track
3.	The Wheel’s First Inertia 01:04	buy track
4.	The Panic 03:36	buy track
5.	A Bit Too Familiar 00:36	buy track
6.	Wouldn’t This Make A Great Episode Of..? 03:59	buy track
7.	Economics Of Opportunity 00:58	buy track
8.	The Executive Summary 03:01	buy track
9.	We Need More Signage And Merchandise 02:20	buy track
10.	Ministry Of Defence 00:42	buy track
11.	Sheesh! The Military Are Expensive 02:08	buy track
12.	Logic Chases Tail 00:44	buy track
13.	What Happened To Science? 03:19	buy track
14.	Let’s Not Talk About The Future 02:53	buy track
15.	The Word On The Street 00:40	buy track
16.	How To Make A Million Truths 03:34	buy track
17.	The Birth Of Daniel 00:49	buy track
18.	Daniel Dreams Of Other Dimensions 03:08	buy track
19.	Revolutions In Religion 01:01	buy track
20.	The Old Faith Was Misplaced 02:13	buy track
21.	The New Believers 02:52	buy track
22.	Widespread Reportage 00:38	buy track
23.	We Came In Droves… 03:21	buy track
24.	Science Steps Forth 00:59	buy track
25.	And Then Empiricism Said ‘No’ 03:38	buy track
26.	The Stragglers 00:48	buy track
27.	I Came Here To Cure My Baldness (But All I Got Was This T-Shirt) 03:11	buy track
28.	Rusty Signs, Dwindling Crowds 00:58	buy track
29.	Blessed Are The Discredited 03:16	buy track
30.	Epilogue: The Crack And What It Meant 02:56	buy track

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Following on from their 111-song debut album, MEN (2013), and its considerably shorter follow-up, 11 Shades Of Love (2015), Quiet Marauder’s 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 album’s 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 Crack’s Costa Coffee franchise and the rise (and fall) of tramp-turned-soothsayer Daniel alongside his burgeoning, prospering belief system.

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released April 3, 2019

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