Long Road Home (album)

Long Road Home
Studio album by
Released4 August 2014
Recorded2013/2014 in London, England
GenreAcoustic, folk, indie rock, folk rock, indie folk
Length41:00
LanguageEnglish
LabelNusic Sounds
ProducerSteve Osborne
Charlie Simpson chronology
Young Pilgrim
(2011)
Long Road Home
(2014)
Little Hands
(2016)
Singles from Long Road Home
  1. "Haunted"
    Released: 2 June 2014
  2. "Comets"
    Released: 2 October 2014

Long Road Home is a 2014 studio album by British singer-songwriter Charlie Simpson. It was Simpson's second top ten album in the UK.

On 2 February 2013, it was reported that Simpson had finished writing the follow-up to his 2011 solo debut Young Pilgrim and he would be heading into the studio with producer Steve Osborne (U2/Placebo) to start recording in early March.

Simpson spent the summer of 2013 playing on the Vans Warped Tour in the US, which was the first time he has played live as a solo artist in America. During October 2013, Charlie went on a tour of the UK supporting rock band, Deaf Havana. He previewed two new tracks from the forthcoming album "Winter Hymns" and "Ten More Days". In 2014, he be undertook a small run of solo shows in the UK in the lead up to the release of his 2nd solo album.

Simpson said when announcing the release: "The making of this album has been an incredible journey for me, it is probably the hardest record I have ever had to make. It took me a while to find what I was looking for and there were points when I nearly had to go back to the drawing board. However, after taking some much needed time out from writing and all things music related, I came back with a completely fresh perspective and wrote in my opinion, some of the best music I have written in my career so far. It’s an album I am hugely proud of and one I had to fight for which makes it all the more special".

Simpson later revealed that the release date for the album had been delayed until 4 August 2014.