Magnetophone’s following up their well-received first album, I Guess Sometimes I Need to Be Reminded of How Much You Love Me with a more collaborative, varied full-length album, The Man Who Ate the Man. Briefly, it’s not eating any men, but it is biting some styles.
The collaborations and variation make up for the knocks they received the first time around- undifferentiated songs, slightly retreaded beats- and there are some really solid songs to be found. Still, after a few listens, it’s probably just going to make you want to dig up MBV, Four Tet, and Boards of Canada.
Is it just me or is this the exact same beat as “Black Girl Pain” from Talib Kweli’s last album?
Magnetophone – “Benny’s Insobriety” (MP3)
Kelly Deal (and possibly Kim) chipped in on this track, one of the best on the album:
Magnetophone – “Kel’s Vintage Thought” (MP3)
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The beat on that second track is a little Annie-esque. Pretty nice, though.
Kim plays drums on “Kel’s Vintage Thought” and Kelley rocks the violin and guitar. When I first heard it, I was disappointed that they weren’t singing on it. Now, the more I hear it the more I’m really enjoying it.
Ummmm…why is Stereogum amazing? I thought I was the only person on the planet to have heard of this band. Even a certain gigantic indie store (*ahem* Amoeba *ahem*) hadn’t alloted any space for said first record. This forced me download their “internet EP”, which you should do because it has an Out Hud remixed version of Kel’s Vintage Thought and the first track is just a good, powerful little dance number I played the life out of.