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Right Place Right Time by Olly Murs

Olly Murs

Right Place Right Time

Release Date: Nov 26, 2012

Genre(s): Pop, Pop/Rock, Dance-Pop, Contemporary Pop/Rock

Record label: Epic

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Album Review: Right Place Right Time by Olly Murs

Fairly Good, Based on 3 Critics

AllMusic - 70
Based on rating 7/10

The third studio album from the runner-up of the 2009 season of The X Factor, 2012's Right Place Right Time features more of vocalist Olly Murs' soulful, R&B-inflected pop music. This time around Murs delves into even more of a funk sound, and tracks like "Troublemaker" (featuring rapper Flo Rida) and "Hey You Beautiful" bring to mind the sound of such similarly inclined contemporaries as Maroon 5 and the Wanted. Elsewhere, Murs touches upon some more organic sounds, as with the orchestral-inflected "Loud & Clear" and the yearning romantic anthem "Hand on Heart.

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The Observer (UK) - 60
Based on rating 3/5

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. The lyric "got ketchup on my trousers and my cheeks are going red" is enough to prompt corresponding blushes of embarrassment in the listener.

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BBC Music
Opinion: Very Good

Knowingly titled, impossibly bouncy and genuinely likeable. John Aizlewood 2012 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.

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