10 Songs (Travis album)

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10 Songs
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Studio album by
Released9 October 2020 (2020-10-09)
Recorded2019-2020
Studio RAK, London [1]
Length37:52
Label
  • BMG
  • Red Telephone Box
Producer
Travis chronology
Everything at Once
(2016)
10 Songs
(2020)
Singles from 10 Songs
  1. "Kissing in the Wind"
    Released: 3 December 2019
  2. "A Ghost"
    Released: 3 June 2020
  3. "Valentine"
    Released: 15 July 2020
  4. "The Only Thing"
    Released: 24 August 2020
  5. "All Fall Down"
    Released: 16 September 2020
  6. "Waving at the Window"
    Released: 6 October 2020
  7. "Nina's Song"
    Released: 4 December 2020

10 Songs is the ninth studio album by the Scottish band Travis, released on 9 October 2020. The album sees singer Fran Healy return to the role of primary songwriter for the first time since 2003's 12 Memories . [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NME 7/10 [6]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Under the Radar 7/10 [8]

10 Songs received generally favourable 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 78, based on 6 reviews. [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Fran Healy

No.TitleLength
1."Waving at the Window"3:28
2."The Only Thing"3:32
3."Valentine"3:00
4."Butterflies"3:54
5."A Million Hearts"4:34
6."A Ghost"3:45
7."All Fall Down"3:27
8."Kissing in the Wind"3:54
9."Nina's Song"4:30
10."No Love Lost"3:48
Total length:37:52

Japanese bonus track

No.TitleLength
11."Kissing in the Wind (Stripped)"3:43
Total length:41:35

Charts

Chart performance for 10 Songs
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 32
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 145
French Albums (SNEP) [11] 160
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [12] 22
Scottish Albums (OCC) [13] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [14] 13
UK Albums (OCC) [15] 5

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