In November 2010, the band played at The Big Reunion festival; the following month, they embarked on a short tour of the UK, with support from Miles Kane and I Am Kloot. The Rest of the World Has Gone Home" deals with the theme of loneliness in the style of Babyshambles, while "Sycophant" is a rock song that touches on folk and psychedelia. Falcon has an arena and indie rock sound, influenced in part by the work of Elbow, and is slower-paced than their previous album.

Laver criticized the band for offering "nothing more than backing for the entirety of the record," which he felt ran at a "rather pedestrian pace". If that wasn’t enough for white-trash-disco fans, Blondie’s Heart of Glass is later name-checked by the boys.Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. The album reached number six in the UK, after selling 24,000 copies in the first week of its release. It was certified silver and gold in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 2013 and 2014, respectively.

Though she added that "too much soul-baring is as bad as too many putdowns; maybe next time the band will find some balance between the extremes of this album" and the previous. Pia saw it as a "marked improvement" from their debut, praising the "newly discovered emotional depth to Fray's songwriting", while lambasting the band for not pushing themselves beyond their influences. Lullaby" and "Scratch Your Name Upon My Lips" were released as a Double A-Side single in December 2010. Wie anscheinend auch schon im Voralbum stecke eine Prise Franz Ferdinand drin, einige Lieder erinnerten mich an die kürzlich hochgeschossenen Glasvegas. Phares theorised the shift in sound "comes from a need for the band to prove that there’s more to their sound than breathless rock and sneering lyrics".

The disc will play perfectly without interruption and the case, inlay notes and sleeve may show limited signs of wear. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Ally Carnwath of The Observer echoed a similar sentiment, stating that "[t]here's a development of sorts here but it extends only to leavening brash indie swagger with bolted-on string sections and heart-on-sleeve anthemics". That Fray’s savvy, gritty-funny lyrics will be compared to Alex Turner’s just emphasises that arch couplets are so rare in pop today that we only have one reference point outside Moz himself.