The Marionette and the Music Box is a 2003 concept album by the instrumental rock group Unwed Sailor.

[5][6] The album consists of 17 instrumental tracks, each of which coincide with a painting by graphic artist Jamie Hunt in the included booklet.

[7] The paintings and song titles tell the story of a marionette who journeys out of his cottage and discovers a music box.

Club wrote that "for all [the album's] conceptual weightiness and lofty artistic goals, it's sublime and endlessly rewarding as background music, too.

called The Marionette and the Music Box an "album of subtlety and focus ... just plain soothing on the ears.