Name: Long Way Home
Brand: Låpsley

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

XLCD754

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-03-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

634904075422

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Låpsley

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Long Way Home documents a turbulent time in L?psley#s life # a period in which she revelled in her new-found music career as it took her from Liverpool to London to Los Angeles and back again #It#s an autobiography of my emotions and events over the past year,# she says. #Everything that#s happened, I#ve channelled in some way into a song # whether that#s the theme of a long distance relationship, or something that he#s said, or the way that I#ve felt, or an argument. I only revisit the memories of that relationship when I go into the studio. I think it#s helped me, to be able to collect everything for those moments when I#m writing. I think that#s what#s driven this album.# L?psley#s determined views on her own production have ensured her involvement in every element of these songs # a fact that in the early days seemed to confuse many of the producers she met. #They didn#t want to listen to me,# she says, #or they think a girl#s just there to add a top line, or they come to the table with ideas already. Straight away if I come in to a studio and someone says #I#ve written something for you#, then I#ll just walk out. I don#t care. I#m not there for that.# For the bulk of Long Way Home she worked with XL#s in-house producer Rodaidh McDonald. #This album wouldn#t be how it is if it wasn#t for Rodaidh,# she says. #He#s at the top of the thank yous.# There were two tracks recorded with Paul O#Duffy, a producer she admired because #The way that he thinks is different to anybody else. He#s not tainted by a commercial idea, it#s so creative and beautiful and what I aspire to be like in the future.# She worked with Mura Masa for the album#s closing track, a song that gave the record its title. #That lyric about taking the long way home just sums up the relationship,# she says. #It has two different meanings the album#s about a long distance relationship, but also if you walk the long way home with someone you#re trying to spend as much time as you can with them.#

Long Way Home

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