This record is a celebration of the longest-serving live incarnation of Quiet Marauder, as well as a reimagining of our ridiculously long debut album, MEN. Way back when, seven years ago in 2013, a lot of that album was recorded by one man banging a frying pan on an inflatable mattress in the Cardiff suburbs. As fun as that was, fast-forwarding to 2020 and the tender touches of Tom Rees in Rat Trap Studios capturing our innate rock rawness was one thousand times more rewarding. Huge thanks to Tom and Ed Truckell for their tracking and mastering, Bubblewrap Collective for still indulging our whimsy and to the kind souls reading this who, we assume, have not stolen this or in the midst of destroying it...and of course, the Quiet Marauder players responsible for making the fundamental noises in the tiny grooves of this disc:

Simon M. Read: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Ian Williams: Vocals, electric guitar
Rowan Liggett: Vocals, bass guitar
John Whittles: Drums
Francesca Dimech: Vocals, trumpet, melodica
Kadesha Drija: Vocals, percussion

Many of these songs chart the darkness of masculinity and human behaviour - its lack of logic, its danger and the spectrum underlying that on which we all sit and should be conscious of. Beyond the dark, there's more often than not some light. 

Be and stay kind.

Quiet Marauder - Tiny Men Parts

Quiet Marauder enter the Covid-19 cultural content wars with their latest single, Eggs!, out on 17th June 2020. A long-time live favourite initially hatched on their 2013 record-baiting debut album, MEN, this re-imagined version turns the dial up to the figurative '11', maybe even higher. Eggs! captures QM in the midst of one of their bass-heavy, drum-smash performances from times when we could all stand close to one another in the same room. Featuring the full Cardiff live band, Eggs! will be familiar to anyone who has captured QM in their full pomp over the last few years. Lyrically concerned (almost exclusively) with the origin and nature of eggs, the song's protagonist is a man slowly loosening their grip on reality through an unhealthily deep and logically irrational obsession.

Eggs! forms part of Quiet Marauder's forthcoming release, Tiny Men Parts; a collection of 9 tracks upgrading a small fraction of their massive, 111-song deconstruction of toxic masculinity, MEN. Gone is the skittish charm of the lo-fi bedroom bangers. Entering instead are the full-on living room floor fillers . Engineered by Tom Rees (Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard) at Rat Trap Studios, Cardiff, Tiny Men Parts will be in the Autumn before another subsequent full album, The Gift, scheduled for later in the winter.

Quiet Marauder - Tiny Men Parts

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