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The Long Way Home (Show of Hands album)

The Long Way Home
Show of Hands - The Long Way Home (Official Album Cover).png
Studio album by Show of Hands
Released 15 January 2016
Recorded 2015
Genre
Label Hands on Music
Show of Hands chronology
Centenary: Words & Music of the Great War
(2014)
The Long Way Home
(2016)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Acoustic Magazine (favourable)
Bright Young Folk (favourable)
The Daily Telegraph 4/5 stars
Fatea Records (favourable)
Folk Radio (favourable)
Folk Worlds (favourable)
fRoots (favourable)
The Guardian 4/5 stars
Louder Than War (8/10)
Songwriting Magazine 4/5 stars

The Long Way Home is the seventeenth studio album by the folk duo Show of Hands. It was released on 15 January 2016, although copies were available at dates on the autumn tour in 2015.

It reached number 70 in the UK Album Chart, and number 9 in the UK Independent Albums Chart.

Acoustic Magazine says the album shows the duo "continuing to build an astonishing legacy" and "returning to their roots". They concluded that it "skillfully weaves all the coherent folk themes together to a coherent whole".

The Daily Telegraph ranked the album at number 8 in their list of "The Best Folk Albums of 2016."

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