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Wreckorder is the debut solo album from Travis frontman, Fran Healy. The album was released on 4 October 2010,[6] on Healy's private label, WreckordLabel.[7] The album was recorded in late 2009 in Berlin and New York City, before being completed in Vermont in early 2010.[8][9] It was produced by Emery Dobyns, with contributions from Paul McCartney, Neko Case and Noah and the Whale's Tom Hobden.[10] The album is available in standard and deluxe editions,[6] and debuted at number 76 on the UK Albums Chart.

Wreckorder
Studio album by Fran Healy
Released	4 October 2010
Recorded	2009–2010
Studio	Haus Studios and Hobo Sound[1]
Genre	Rock, soft rock
Length	33:58
Label	Wreckord Label
Producer	Emery Dobyns, Fran Healy
Singles from Wreckorder
"Holiday" Released: 17 September 2010 [2] "Buttercups" Released: 4 October 2010[3] "Sing Me to Sleep" Released: 7 January 2011 [4] "Fly in the Ointment" Released: 21 February 2011[5]

Background

The cover for the album was photographed by Tim Barber. In an interview for his official website, Healy claimed that "I wanted a portrait of what I looked like at that very second. I wanted to show that I was no longer the little boy that appeared on the inside sleeve of The Man Who. I did think about other images, but they just didn't feel right. This one looked particularly cool."[11]

As a thank you for his work on the album, Healy honoured Paul McCartney by becoming a vegetarian. "My wife and I were sitting at the table, thinking of a way to thank Paul, and I suggested becoming a vegetarian. As our son is already a vegetarian, all it required was jumping onto the same boat. When I met Paul at one of his gigs in Berlin, I told him and he was visibly flabbergasted. Three days later the FedEx man delivered three Linda McCartney cookbooks."[8][9]

In August 2010, Healy announced that the first single from the album would be "Buttercups".[12] In an interview for Spin magazine, Healy revealed: "'Buttercups' was written about an experience in my art school days, when my then girlfriend turned her nose up at flowers I had picked for her. I couldn't afford fancy roses, so I thought that hand-picked flowers would be more romantic. She didn't think so. That relationship didn't last long."[13]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	66/100[14]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	[15]
AllMusic	[16]
antiMusic	[17]
BBC Music	[18]
Decoy Music	[19]
Filter	83%[20]
Glide Magazine	[21]
musicOMH	[22]
PopMatters	[23]
Slant Magazine	[24]

Wreckorder received generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66, based on 13 reviews.[14]

Track listing

References

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