Album review: Much of + comprises gloopy, largely anonymous ballads, but Ed Sheeran – still barely out of school and looking about 12 – is clearly a talented chap who can only get better.
Singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran is a 20-year-old Prince Harry lookalike from Suffolk who somehow straddles the worlds of folksy MOR and hip hop.
This means he finds himself on the playlists at both Radio 2 (where his ballads fit in nicely amid the James Blunts and James Morrisons on the Ken Bruce Show) and 1Xtra (MCing alongside the likes of Wiley and Wretch 32).
Sheeran is at his best when he combines both worlds. Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, his lovelorn ballads will suddenly lurch into verbose,… Read the full story