★★★★★
ot winning The X Factor hasn't done Olly Murs much harm. He's notched up three multiplatinum albums and four No 1 singles, and this fourth album will probably keep him in arenas. Arms will surely raise to the catchy, -ish pop of (with Travie McCoy) or Prince/Justin Timberlake-like funker Did You Miss Me? Meanwhile, Beautiful to Me sounds laboratory-designed to tug at the heartstrings of insecure teenage girls...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-11-21
★★★★★
Release Date: November 23 2012 Whenever someone mentions the phrase "pop music," there's a good chance that most people will react in a few ways - they'll either tell you what popular artists or bands they like, they'll grimace in disgust, while telling you how horrible pop music is, or they'll just live their lives like nothing ever happened...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-05-27
★★★★★
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, Olly Murs will always be the man who finished second to Joe McElderry in X Factor 2009. However, whoever wins the short-term reality TV battle is not guaranteed to win the pop war.
And so, as McElderry drifts gently off into oblivion like a disconsolate Furby, Essex boy Murs sold-out his arena tour of 2012. His similarly sized 2013 trek will bear identical fruit...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-12-03
★★★★★
Murs is one of this country's biggest pop stars, with two platinum-selling albums under his belt since doing X Factor time in 2009. This third album makes his success a mite more palatable - there's less of the pop-ska pabulum and more Will Young-style balladeering, mixed in with up-tempo, perky numbers, such as What a Buzz - an enthusiastic account of a date, which sounds like a parody of his own hapless-chappy every-bloke persona...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-11-24
★★★★★
In Case You Didn't Know is a peculiar choice of title for at a time when his profile is at its highest. But for those unfamiliar with the X Factor graduate turned presenter, a brief masterclass: on the surface, he's an inoffensive Jack the Lad with added nan appeal, enjoying the ride in a rare display of post-X Factor success...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Olly MursIn Case You Didn't KnowEpic2011 Murs seems to be pop's answer to Jamie Oliver: a bit bland but unfailingly affable and a massive hit with the mums. ("I'm OK" even has the happy chappy line: "I jumped on my Vespa, ride through the gloom"...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2011-11-28
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Olly MursIn Case You Didn't KnowEpic2011 The press release affixed to the second album from 2009 X Factor runner-up Olly Murs begins: "I'm never going to think, 'Right, I've made it now.' Even the greats like Paul McCartney never think they can't do better...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2011-11-28
★★★★★
Anyone who enjoys a chipper ditty, a milkman-friendly whistle-along of a song, will find a lot to like in this album. Olly is a very confident fellow, with a winning smile and a spring in his step, and this is spread thickly across his debut like marzipan on a wedding cake...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-11-29
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Olly MursOlly MursEpic2010 X Factor runner-up Olly Murs begins his debut album with "Change Is Gonna Come" - not, thank goodness, a Sam Cooke cover, but a feel-good if forgettable mid-tempo track about "standing tall" and all...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-11-29
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