The Boy with No Name is the fifth studio album by Scottish rock band Travis. The album was released on 7 May 2007 through Epic Records. This is Travis first album in which other members contributed to songwriting, rather than the frontman Fran Healy, who was the sole songwriter across their past four albums. The album sold over 442,900 copies worldwide.
The name of the album came about when lead singer Fran Healy and his partner Nora were deciding on a name for their newly born son. During this time, he sent a photo of his son to a friend by email and labeled the photo "The Boy with No Name". Healy revealed this on The Chris Moyles Show during an interview. Healy has also revealed in pre-album release performances that some tracks are influenced by his developing family status, such as "My Eyes" being about his new son or "Battleships" referring to ups and downs of relationships.
Travis dedicated this album to the Abbey Road Studios chief master engineer Chris Blair and British world champion rally driver Richard Burns, who died of a brain tumour at the age of 34 in 2005.[1]
During the recording, the band discovered they were in the same studio as British band Feeder but in different rooms. (Feeder were recording what would be their fifth studio album Pushing the Senses.) It occurred to Fran and Dougie they should help Feeder with their album and provided backing vocals for the final chorus of the first single, "Tumble and Fall".
For the track "Under the Moonlight", backing vocals were recorded by singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, and "Battleships" features backing vocals by Julia Stone.
Release
The Boy with No Name entered at No. 4 on the UK Album Charts. In the U.S., the album debuted at number 58 on the Billboard 200, selling 12,000 copies in its first week.[2] The album went gold in the UK. "Closer" was released as the first single from the album in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2007, and peaked at No. 10 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2007 in British music). Second single "Selfish Jean" made No. 30. The final single, "My Eyes", reached No. 60 – their lowest chart placing during their career at the time. The full album was available to purchase at the Virgin Megastore at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California over the weekend of 27 April 2007 – 29 April 2007.
The Boy with No Name received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 57 based on 20 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[3]NME gave the album 2 out of 10 and labelled it "impotent aural gruel" with "all the soul of a platform announcement".[13]
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The Boy with No Name is the fifth studio album by Scottish rock band Travis The album was released on 7 May 2007 through Epic Records This is Travis first album in which other members contributed to songwriting rather than the frontman Fran Healy who was the sole songwriter across their past four albums The album sold over 442 900 copies worldwide The Boy with No NameStudio album by TravisReleased7 May 2007RecordedDecember 2004 January 2007StudioBritish Grove London The Hospital London Kensaltown London Mayfair London Mercer Street New York City RAK London The Weston Park Hotel Westside London The Zeppelin London Hampstead Heath London Washington Square Park New York CityGenreIndie pop alternative rockLength52 54LabelIndependiente EpicProducerTravis Steve Orchard Nigel Godrich Mike Hedges George TanderoTravis chronologySingles 2004 The Boy with No Name 2007 Ode to J Smith 2008 Singles from The Boy with No Name Closer Released 23 April 2007 Selfish Jean Released 9 July 2007 My Eyes Released 17 September 2007 Contents 1 Background 2 Release 3 Reception 4 Track listing 5 Personnel 6 Charts 7 ReferencesBackground EditThe name of the album came about when lead singer Fran Healy and his partner Nora were deciding on a name for their newly born son During this time he sent a photo of his son to a friend by email and labeled the photo The Boy with No Name Healy revealed this on The Chris Moyles Show during an interview Healy has also revealed in pre album release performances that some tracks are influenced by his developing family status such as My Eyes being about his new son or Battleships referring to ups and downs of relationships Travis dedicated this album to the Abbey Road Studios chief master engineer Chris Blair and British world champion rally driver Richard Burns who died of a brain tumour at the age of 34 in 2005 1 During the recording the band discovered they were in the same studio as British band Feeder but in different rooms Feeder were recording what would be their fifth studio album Pushing the Senses It occurred to Fran and Dougie they should help Feeder with their album and provided backing vocals for the final chorus of the first single Tumble and Fall For the track Under the Moonlight backing vocals were recorded by singer songwriter KT Tunstall and Battleships features backing vocals by Julia Stone Release EditThe Boy with No Name entered at No 4 on the UK Album Charts In the U S the album debuted at number 58 on the Billboard 200 selling 12 000 copies in its first week 2 The album went gold in the UK Closer was released as the first single from the album in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2007 and peaked at No 10 in the UK Singles Chart see 2007 in British music Second single Selfish Jean made No 30 The final single My Eyes reached No 60 their lowest chart placing during their career at the time The full album was available to purchase at the Virgin Megastore at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California over the weekend of 27 April 2007 29 April 2007 Reception EditProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic57 100 3 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 4 BBCfavourable 5 Digital Spy 6 NME2 10 7 New York Daily Newsfavourable 8 Pitchfork Media5 6 10 9 Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Rolling Stone 11 Q PopMatters6 10 12 The Boy with No Name received mixed reviews from music critics At Metacritic which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics the album received an average score of 57 based on 20 reviews which indicates mixed or average reviews 3 NME gave the album 2 out of 10 and labelled it impotent aural gruel with all the soul of a platform announcement 13 Track listing EditNo TitleWriter s Producer s Length1 3 Times and You Lose Fran Healy Andy DunlopSteve Orchard4 142 Selfish Jean HealyMike Hedges4 003 Closer HealySteve Orchard Nigel Godrich4 004 Big Chair Healy DunlopSteve Orchard4 075 Battleships HealySteve Orchard Nigel Godrich4 116 Eyes Wide Open HealyMike Hedges2 597 My Eyes HealySteve Orchard Nigel Godrich4 088 One Night HealyGeorge Tandero4 009 Under the Moonlight Susie HugSteve Orchard4 0010 Out in Space HealySteve Orchard Nigel Godrich3 3511 Colder Healy Dougie PayneSteve Orchard4 0612 New Amsterdam New Amsterdam ends at 2 37 and followed by hidden track Sailing Away which begins at 5 50 HealySteve Orchard Nigel Godrich9 26 British edition bonus tracks 14 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length13 Perfect Heaven Space hidden track HealyNigel Godrich3 50 iTunes Store pre order edition bonus trackNo TitleLength14 Say Hello 3 33 Japanese edition bonus tracks 15 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length14 The Great Unknown HealySteve Orchard Nigel Godrich2 2515 Perfect Heaven Space HealyNigel Godrich3 50Personnel EditPersonnel per booklet 16 Travis Fran Healy lead vocals guitar harmonica piano Andy Dunlop guitar Dougie Payne bass guitar backing vocals Neil Primrose drumsProduction Travis producer except track 13 Steve Orchard producer except tracks 2 6 8 10 and 13 engineering except tracks 8 and 13 Mike Hedges producer tracks 2 and 6 vocal recordings tracks 3 5 7 10 and 11 George Tandero producer and engineer track 8 mixing tracks 4 5 and 8 Nigel Godrich additional production tracks 3 5 7 and 10 engineering track 13 Matthieu Clouard production assistant tracks 2 and 6 vocal recordings tracks 3 7 10 and 11 Jens L Thomsen assistant engineer track 8 Michael H Brauer mixing except tracks 4 5 and 8 Will Hensley mix assistant except tracks 4 and 5 Emery Dobyns Washington Square Park recording track 12 Tappin Gofton design and art direction Stefan Ruiz photography Additional musicians Julia Stone backing vocals track 5 KT Tunstall backing vocals track 9 Manon Morris harp track 11 Sarah Clarke clarinet track 12 Joby Talbot string arrangement track 2 Chris Worsey cello track 2 Ian Burdge cello tracks 2 3 5 and 7 Zoe Martlew cello track 2 Lucy Wilkins violin track 2 Louisa Fuller violin track 2 Helena Wood violin track 2 Rick Koster violin track 2 Richard George violin track 2 Louisa Aldridge violin track 2 Jonathan Hill violin track 2 Darragh Morgan violin track 2 Jeff Moore violin track 2 Natalia Bonner violin track 2 Adrian Smith viola track 2 Reiad Chibah viola track 2 John Metcalfe viola tracks 2 3 and 7 Rachel Robson viola track 2 Sally Herbert string arrangement and violin tracks 3 5 and 7 Everton Nelson violin tracks 3 and 7 Calina De La Mare violin track 5 Oli Langford viola track 5 Charts EditChart performance for The Boy with No Name Chart 2007 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 17 97Austrian Albums O3 Austria 18 18Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 19 98Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 20 73Dutch Albums Album Top 100 21 60French Albums SNEP 22 41German Albums Offizielle Top 100 23 8Irish Albums IRMA 24 20Italian Albums FIMI 25 17Norwegian Albums VG lista 26 2Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 27 54Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 28 51Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 29 7UK Albums OCC 30 4US Billboard 200 31 58References Edit Travis Discography The Boy with No Name Archived 17 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine TravisOnline com 7 May 2007 Katie Hasty Buble Sidesteps Bone Thugs To Claim No 1 Billboard com 16 May 2007 a b The Boy with No Name Reviews Metacritic CBS Interactive Retrieved 7 March 2013 AllMusic review Music Review of Travis The Boy With No Name BBC Retrieved 21 June 2011 Music Album Review Travis The Boy with No Name Digital Spy Digital Spy Archived from the original on 9 May 2007 Retrieved 5 May 2007 Travis Travis Album Reviews Nme Com 1 May 2007 Retrieved 21 June 2011 Travis Boy wonder Nydailynews com 8 May 2007 Retrieved 21 June 2011 Pitchfork Album Reviews Travis The Boy With No Name Pitchforkmedia com 2 June 2007 Retrieved 21 June 2011 New Recordings Inquirer 05 13 2007 Archived from the original on 15 May 2007 Retrieved 13 May 2007 Travis The Boy with No Name Music Reviews Rolling Stone www rollingstone com Archived from the original on 14 February 2009 Retrieved 17 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