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"Closer to Love" is the first single from Mat Kearney's third album City of Black & White. It was released as a digital download on March 10, 2009. [1] The song was featured in USA Today and chosen as the "Pick of the week." [2] The music video was released on March 27, 2009.
City of Black & White is the third studio album by Mat Kearney.Released on May 19, 2009, it follows his 2006 major-label debut, Nothing Left to Lose.The first single, "Closer to Love", was released on March 10, 2009, as a digital download.
Kearney was born on December 1, 1978, and raised in Eugene, Oregon, with his two brothers. [4] At South Eugene High School, Kearney was a soccer player. [5]He attended California State University, Chico in Chico, California, on an athletic scholarship and majored in literature, playing soccer until his junior year.
CCM Magazine's Matt Conner said' "the one element that separates Mat Kearney from the typical troubadour pack is his affinity for rap, hip-hop, and groove-induced arrangements, which blends tightly with sparse sound and his spiritually-charged songwriting...[and] Young Love [was] (a title inspired by his recent marriage)." [5]
Nothing Left to Lose is the second studio album and major-label debut by Mat Kearney. Several tracks are re-recordings or remixes of songs originally featured on Kearney's first album, Bullet. "All I Need", "Crashing Down", and "Where We Gonna Go From Here" were all featured in season 3 episodes of the hit TV series Grey's Anatomy. "Breathe In ...
"Bullet" and "Girl America" received further subtle remixing for inclusion on Kearney's 2006 major label debut, Nothing Left to Lose, along with then-new song "In the Middle". Songs "Undeniable", "Renaissance", and "Won't Back Down" appear on the subsequent 2006 album without any modifications from their initial release on Bullet in 2004.
[8] Jono Davies, rating the album four stars at Louder Than the Music, writes, "If you're looking for positive, happy, melodic, modern mainstream music then this is worth a purchase." [ 17 ] Writing a review for Christian Review Magazine, Leah St. John rating the album four and a half stars, states, "Mat Kearney has crafted a great album, which ...
Billboard highlighted "Close to You" in its "Spotlight Singles" section on May 30, 1970, commenting: "Performance is exceptional." [20] In a 1995 New York Times Magazine story about love songs released in summers, Stephan Talty described "Close to You" as a "hushed love song" that "[set] the tone for a generation's soft ballads" in 1970. [21]