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.

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.

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".

"Closer" was released as the first single from the album in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2007, and peaked at No.

[3] NME gave the album 2 out of 10 and labelled it "impotent aural gruel" with "all the soul of a platform announcement".