''The Man Who Ate the Man'' is an album by the electronic / art rock band
Magnetophone. It was released in 2005 on
4AD Records
4AD is a British record label owned by Beggars Group. It was founded in London under the name "Axis" (after the Hendrix album) by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1980 as an imprint of Beggars Banquet Records. The name was changed to 4AD af ...
. Equally inspired by
electropop
Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. Writer Hollin Jones has described it as a variant of synth-pop with heavy emphasis on its electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a re ...
pioneers like
Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition '' Silver Apples of the Moon'', the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He was one of the foun ...
, contemporary electronic artists like
Autechre, and
Krautrock
Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments ...
, Magnetophone have continued to evolve from their debut ''I Guess Sometimes I Need to Be Reminded of How Much You Love Me'' (2000).
The lyrics of ''The Man Who Ate The Man'' are more poetic than rock'n'roll inspired, and concern city relationships ("Benny's Insobriety" and "Without Word") or similar, but set against a rural backdrop ("A Sad Ha Ha (Circled My Demise)" and "The Only Witching You'll be Doing"). The themes explore control, loss, reverence, worth, relationship-pacts.
Track listing
# "Let's Start Something New" – 1:47
# "Kel's Vintage Thought" – 2:46
# "A Sad Ha Ha (Circled My Demise)" – 3:45
# "And May Your Last Words Be a Chance to Make Things Better" – 4:06
# "The Only Witching You'll Be Doing" – 2:19
# "Ray and Suzette" – 3:28
# "Benny's Insobriety" – 3:47
# "Kodiak" – 3:38
# "In the Hours After 10" – 2:03
# "Motion G" – 2:56
# "Without Word" – 4:45
# "I've Been Looking Around Me" – 2:09
# "Let's Start Something Smooth" – 1:53
2005 albums
4AD albums
Magnétophone albums
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