Close Up (The Outsiders album)
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| Studio album by The Outsiders | ||||
| Released | 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 at Spaceward, Cambridge, England | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Label | Raw Edge | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| NME | generally favourable |
| Record Mirror | unfavourable |
Close Up is the second and final studio album by English punk band the Outsiders, which would later evolve into the Sound. It was released in 1978 by record label Raw Edge.
In the liner notes of the 2012 reissue of the album, the musical style of Close Up was described: "Gone were the acoustic guitars and lengthy solos, replaced by urgency, stabbing riffs and a full-on, hard-edged punk/new wave sound".
Close Up received a lukewarm response from critics, who were more enthusiastically about it than the band's previous album, Calling on Youth. NME reviewer John Hamblett assessed the album as "patchy, but promising", calling the Outsiders "a band with a future".Tony Parsons, on the other hand, reviewing for the same magazine, described it as "tuneless, gormless, gutless".
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