Quiet Marauder – The Crack And What It Meant (Feat. Mathias Kom)
£10.00 – £15.00
BWR047 (CD/DL)
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 Meantdescribes 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.
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.
Tracklisting
1. It Arrived In Silence
2. The Discovery
3. The Wheel’s First Inertia
4. The Panic
5. A Bit Too Familiar
6. Wouldn’t 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. Let’s 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
Additional information
Format
T-Shirt Large, T-Shirt Medium, T-Shirt X-Large, CD
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Quiet Marauder – The Crack And What It Meant (Feat. Mathias Kom)
£10.00 – £15.00
BWR047 (CD/DL)
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.
Description
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.
Tracklisting
1. It Arrived In Silence
2. The Discovery
3. The Wheel’s First Inertia
4. The Panic
5. A Bit Too Familiar
6. Wouldn’t 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. Let’s 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
Additional information
T-Shirt Large, T-Shirt Medium, T-Shirt X-Large, CD