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Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Boston Phoenix
Entertainment Weekly	A
The Guardian
Los Angeles Times
NME	6/10
Pitchfork Media	7.8/10
Rolling Stone
USA Today
The Village Voice	B−

The Man Who is the second studio album by Scottish rock band Travis. The album was released on 24 May 1999 through Independiente. It saw a change in musical direction for the band, moving away from the rockier tone of their debut album Good Feeling.

Four singles were released from the album: "Writing to Reach You", "Driftwood", and the top 10 hits "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" and "Turn". Fueled by the success of "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" and the band's appearance at the 1999 Glastonbury Festival, The Man Who recovered from its initial polarized critical reception and slow sales to eventually spend a total of 11 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and went on to give the band international recognition. As of 2016, The Man Who has sold over 2.68 million copies in the United Kingdom.

The Man Who was produced by Nigel Godrich and recorded at producer Mike Hedges' chateau in France. The band continued recording at, among other studios, RAK Studios and Abbey Road Studios in London. The majority of the album's songs were written before the band's debut album Good Feeling had even been released; "Writing to Reach You", "The Fear" and "Luv" were penned around 1995–96, while "As You Are", "Turn" and "She's So Strange" date back as far as 1993 and the early Glass Onion EP.

The title The Man Who was derived from the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by neurologist Oliver Sacks. The album's sleeve notes include a dedication to film director Stanley Kubrick, who had died a few months prior to the album's release.

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