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The Outsiders

Eric Church

The Outsiders

Fourth studio album from the North Carolina-born country / southern rock singer-songwriter

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6.9

Label
Decca / Universal Nashville
UK Release date
24/02/2014
US Release date
11/02/2014
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  1. 9.0 |   Spin

    The Outsiders isn't just a headbanger's ball. It has Tusk-magnitude ambition
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  2. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Church is a crafty, ambitious songwriter with a sensitive, rueful side
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  3. 7.0 |   All Music

    Church has made the conscious decision to try a little bit of everything in his quest to be a savior to both rock and country, and if he doesn't quite knock it out of the park when he swings for the fences, he nevertheless scores
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  4. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    He's most successful here with the leftfield-leaning tracks - and you feel Church himself would be happy with that
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  5. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Church is so good at the commercial that he will never be an outsider, but he also knows how well the safe outsider sells, and how successful the well packaged rebel can be
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  6. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    An album with a radical spirit but a conservative heart
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  7. 6.0 |   The FT

    The less easily shocked listeners will enjoy the cartoon posturing; also the humour underpinning the artist’s bad-boy persona
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