Quakers are a

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consisting of three producers; Fuzzface (Geoff Barrow), 7-Stu-7, and Katalyst. Their debut studio album, ''

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'', was released in 2012 and features a host of guest rappers, many of whom the band discovered using MySpace. The group is signed to

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History

Quakers' debut studio album, ''

'', was released in 2012. At

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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The album has been listed as number 41 in

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's top 100 albums of 2012. It also made

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"Best of 2012" list. In 2020, Quakers released a 50-track beat tape, ''Supa K: Heavy Tremors''. The group has no known affiliation with the

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, also known as

Discography

Studio albums

* ''

'' (

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, 2012) * ''Supa K: Heavy Tremors'' (Stones Throw, 2020) * ''II - The Next Wave'' (Stones Throw, 2020)

Mixtapes

* ''Hip-Hop Quake Mix'' (Stones Throw, 2012)

References

External links

* {{Authority control British hip hop groups Hip hop supergroups Stones Throw Records artists