A limited (500 copy) edition was released on white multicoloured vinyl by Racket Records on 13 November 2006.

So despite selling enough for a top 30 position, the album was declared ineligible for the album chart; however, its first single "You're Gone", reached #7 in the UK Singles Chart, thus becoming their first UK top ten hit since 1987's "Incommunicado".

The four parts of the title track work as musical interludes, but they also tell a continuing story about the narrator's childhood fascination with marbles, collecting them and losing most of them over the years.

Furthermore, the song "The Damage" includes multiple lyrical call-backs to "Genie"; "Ocean Cloud" mentions "the invisible man" and in a key moment of "Neverland", the line "you're gone" appears.

On the 2004 tour, the band played the single disc version of Marbles (however with "Drilling Holes" exchanged for "The Damage").

At the Marillion Weekend in 2005, the band played all fifteen tracks of Marbles but with a revised order ("The Damage" appearing in the place of "Ocean Cloud", which was performed after "Neverland").

On the Saturday night Marillion performed the 2CD edition of Marbles in its entirety and in original order.