| The Man Who Ate the Man | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Magnetophone |
| Cover: | TMWATM 1.jpg |
| Released: | October 24, 2005 |
| Genre: | Electronic / Art rock |
| Length: | 39:22 |
| Label: | 4AD Records |
| Prev Title: | I Guess Sometimes I Need to Be Reminded of How Much You Love Me |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
The Man Who Ate the Man is an album by the electronic / art rock band Magnetophone. It was released in 2005 on 4AD Records. Equally inspired by electropop pioneers like Morton Subotnick, contemporary electronic artists like Autechre, and Krautrock, 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.