Body Riddle

Body Riddle
Studio album by Clark
Released	2 October 2006 (2006-10-02)
Genre	IDM
Length	42:03
Label	Warp
Producer	Christopher Clark
Clark chronology
Empty the Bones of You (2003) Body Riddle (2006) Turning Dragon (2008)

Body Riddle is the third studio album by English electronic musician Chris Clark and the first one under the mononym Clark. It was released on 2 October 2006 by Warp.

The music video for the song "Ted" was selected by Pitchfork as one of the top music videos of 2007.[1] "Vengeance Drools" was later used in the 2009 short film Cut, promoting the charitable organisation Women's Aid. "Ted" was used as the theme song to the 2022 Channel 4 comedy series I Hate You.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Drowned in Sound	9/10[2]
Pitchfork	8.5/10[3]

Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork wrote that Clark "infuses sonic streaks of contemporaries like Four Tet, Prefuse 73, and DJ Shadow into his repertoire, along with his usual Aphex and Boards of Canada tics, and in the process crafts his best album to date".[3] In 2017, Pitchfork ranked Body Riddle at number 17 on its list of "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time".[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Herr Bar"	3:54
2.	"Frau Wav"	4:12
3.	"Springtime Epigram"	1:35
4.	"Herzog"	4:23
5.	"Ted"	2:54
6.	"Roulette Thrift Run"	3:22
7.	"Vengeance Drools"	3:43
8.	"Dew on the Mouth"	1:05
9.	"Matthew Unburdened"	5:39
10.	"Night Knuckles"	3:49
11.	"The Autumnal Crush"	7:27

Japanese edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Observe Harvest"	5:14

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Body Riddle.[5]

Musicians Christopher Clark – performance, arrangements Richard Roberts – vocal assistance (track 7) Stephen Wilkinson – vocal assistance (track 7)

Technical personnel Christopher Clark – production Naweed – mastering

References

1. "Top 50 Music Videos of 2007". Pitchfork. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2008.
2. Diver, Mike (5 October 2006). "Album Review: Clark – Body Riddle". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
3. Dombal, Ryan (27 October 2006). "Clark: Body Riddle". Pitchfork. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
4. "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time". Pitchfork. 24 January 2017. p. 4. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
5. Body Riddle (liner notes). Clark. Warp. 2006. WARP149.