Wreckorder

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]

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]