Ed Sheeran: + – review

(Asylum/Atlantic)Lad-next-door troubadour Ed Sheeran is indebted to artists such as Jamie T and Damien Rice, as evidenced by a debut that hops between bullish mockney rap and quavering sentimentality, but there's also a Bieber-ish quality to his appeal. There are the 20-year-old's almost 300,000 Twitter followers for one thing but, more dubiously, he and Biebz share a tendency to address their songs to vulnerable teenage girls. Half-rapped banalities about watching Shrek 12 times and being "crap...

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