Coming Home | ||||
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Studio album by New Found Glory | ||||
Released | September 19, 2006 | |||
Recorded | January—April 2006 at Groove Masters Studios, Santa Monica, California | |||
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Length | 48:11 | |||
Label | Geffen | |||
Producer | Thom Panunzio, New Found Glory | |||
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Singles from Coming Home | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
AbsolutePunk | 88% |
Alternative Press | |
Big Cheese | |
The Dallas Morning News | favorable |
Entertainment Weekly | B |
Kerrang! | |
New York Post | |
The Palm Beach Post | A− |
Rock Sound | 9/10 |
Coming Home is the fifth studio album by American rock band New Found Glory. It was produced by the band along with Thom Panunzio and released on September 19, 2006 through Geffen Records. Written and demoed at the Morning View Mansion in Malibu, California during 2005, Coming Home is a concept album unified by a lyrical theme of being away from home and loved ones. The album marks a departure from the band's earlier work, implementing a more layered and mid-tempo sound that features various piano, keyboard, and string instrumentation more comparable to classic rock than their usual pop punk style.
Coming Home was a critical success for the band, and is widely regarded as one of their best records. The album was particularly noted for its matured style, while the songs were considered the most "mellow" of the band's career. Despite the release of only one single, "It's Not Your Fault", the album was still a relative commercial success, debuting at number eight on the Billboard Rock Albums chart and number nineteen on the Billboard 200.
The Japanese edition, issued on September 13, 2006, features three bonus tracks. Another bonus track is exclusively available with a digital download of the album from the iTunes Store, while Best Buy customers received a voucher inside their CD cases for the download of a fifth bonus track called "Over Me". The album was the band's last release on a major label, as they left Geffen Records the following year before signing with independent labels Bridge Nine and the long running Epitaph Records.