Release and Promotion
Coming Home was first announced in June 2006, with the band citing a scheduled release date of September, with lead single "It's Not Your Fault" preceding the album in July. The music video for "It's Not Your Fault" would eventually make its worldwide debut on August 1, 2006 through Total Request Live.
A week prior to the albums release, the band posted a mock open letter to Lionel Richie, who was also about to release a new album of the same name the following week. The band jokingly threatened to name their next project Dancing on the Ceiling (Richie's 1986 album), writing, "Congrats this week on the release of your new CD Coming Home - what an awesome title! Sounds familiar though, where did we hear that before? Oh yeah, it's the name of our new CD which drops Tues. Sept. 19. Our new single and video is 'It's Not Your Fault.' Hey...we haven't heard your song yet...Send us a copy."
The album was released on September 13, 19 and 25 in Japan, North America and the United Kingdom respectively. Following the albums release, the band announced a 34-date tour of North America stretching from Cincinnati to Boston. The band had initially planned to release either the title track "Coming Home" or "On My Mind" as the second single, however due to internal problems at Geffen Records, any further release plans were scrapped. Just after the album was released Jordan Schur, the labels president, lost his job. With no focus on the record in the immediate aftermath, Jordan Pundik recalls, "Everything fell apart and Coming Home was just forgotten about. The record didn't stand a chance." Later the label would offer the band a new contract under a subsidiary label called Octone Records, however the band declined and parted ways with the label. Despite this, the band continued to tour in support of the album, joining Paramore in the UK during October 2007.
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