Upon its release, Get Closer received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic

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 rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average

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 score of 76, based on 7 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Jessica Phillips with Country Weekly

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gave it a four star rating, saying "the sugared tunes would be easy to dismiss except for the credible guitar riffs, foot-tapping rhythms and fiery passion with which Keith sings". Andrew Leahey with Allmusic gave it a four star rating, calling it "a lean collection of country-rockers and bedroom ballads". Sarah Rodman with The Boston Globe

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gave it a favorable review, calling it "lean but enjoyable". Blake Boldt with The 9513 gave the release 3½, saying it "On Get Closer, the affable Aussie celebrates life with a group of eight uplifting songs offering one cohesive message: love is grand".

Matt Bjorke with Roughstock gave it a 3½ star rating, saying "this album is all about happiness with your romantic life. Every song on this short 8 track album discusses matters of the heart with each song discussing various ways that relationships can have on a life". Bill Friskics-Warren with The Washington Post

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gave it a favorable review, saying "if you're not in the mood for love, the music here - highly burnished country-rock - affords pleasures of its own". Jonathan Keefe with Slant Magazine

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 gave it 3½ stars, calling it "vintage Urban", Keefe commented on it saying Get Closer is "his most carefully edited album, if not necessarily his best". Rolling Stone

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critic Jon Dolan gave it a 3 star rating, calling it "good-natured country rock".

Track listing

Personnel

Technical

• Justin Niebank - Engineer, Mixing
• Drew Bollman - Engineer, Mixing Assistant
• David Bryant - Assistant Engineer
• Joanna Carter - Art Direction
• Mark Dobson - Engineer
• Mike "Frog" Griffith - Production Coordination
• Mark Hagen - Engineer
• Michelle Hall - Art Producer
• Jean-Philippe Piter - Photography
• Matt Rausch - Assistant Engineer
• Jason Spence - Assistant Engineer
• Max Vadukul
  Max Vadukul
  Max Vadukul is a photographer who has worked mostly in America. He is noted for his fashion photography, portraits published in The New Yorker and many covers for Rolling Stone magazine.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Photography
• Hank Williams - Mastering

Musicians

• Keith Urban
  Keith Urban
  Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age...
  
   - Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Bouzouki, Composer, E-Bow, Producer
• Sarah Buxton
  Sarah Buxton
  Sarah Buxton is an American country music artist, formerly signed to the independent Lyric Street Records...
  
   - Background Vocals (On "You Gonna Fly")
• Eric Darken - Percussion
• Dan Dugmore - Steel Guitar
• Stuart Duncan
  Stuart Duncan
  Stuart Duncan is a bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician...
  
   - Fiddle
• Karen Fairchild
  Little Big Town
  Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its inception: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet. The quartet's musical style relies heavily on four-part vocal harmonies, with all...
  
   - Background Vocals (On "You Gonna Fly")
• Dann Huff
  Dann Huff
  Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...
  
   - Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Banjo, E-Bow, Mandocello, Mandolin, Producer
• David Huff - Percussion, Programming
• Charlie Judge - Keyboards, String Arrangements, Strings
• Chris McHugh - Drums, Percussion
• Gordon Mote - Piano
• Kimberly Schlapman
  Little Big Town
  Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its inception: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet. The quartet's musical style relies heavily on four-part vocal harmonies, with all...
  
   - Background Vocals (On "You Gonna Fly")
• Jimmie Lee Sloas - Bass
• Russell Terrell - Background Vocals
• Ilya Toshinsky - Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Banjo, Guitar Resonator, Mandolin

Album

Chart (2010)	Peak Position
Australian Albums Chart Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...	11
Australian Country Chart	2
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	8
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	7
US Billboard Top Country Albums	2

Certifications

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	CAN Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....	AUS ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
2010	"Put You in a Song Put You in a Song "Put You in a Song" is a song written by Keith Urban, Jedd Hughes, and Sarah Buxton, and recorded by Urban and released September 13, 2010. It serves as the lead-off single from his sixth American studio album, Get Closer, released on November 16, 2010.... "	2	53	49	—
2011	"Without You Without You (Keith Urban song) "Without You" is a song written by Joe West and Dave Pahanish, and recorded by New Zealand country music artist Keith Urban for his 2010 album Get Closer... "	1	52	69	—
	"Long Hot Summer Long Hot Summer (Keith Urban song) "Long Hot Summer" is the title of a song written by Richard Marx and Australian country music artist Keith Urban. Urban recorded the song for his 2010 album Get Closer, from which it was released as the third single in June 2011. It reached number one on the U.S... "	1	45	35	82
	"You Gonna Fly You Gonna Fly "You Gonna Fly" is the title of a song written by Preston Brust, Chris Lucas and Jaren Johnston. It was recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban, who recorded the song for his 2010 album Get Closer... "A	21
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

• ^ACurrent single.