Ed Sheeran

There’s something about Ed Sheeran that separates him from the thousands of other young singer songwriters out there: Commercial success. What is it that’s made him progress from being another constantly gigging singer songwriter to someone with a number one album? + helps give listeners an idea of why he’s succeeded. The thing about him that is immediately evident is that he’s real. Not in a ‘down wit da kidz’ way, but lyrically he’s not pretending to be anything other than what he actually is. There seems to be an autobiographical undercurrent in every track, with one of the...