No.6 Collaborations ProjectEd Sheeran · 2019

guardian

6.0

“Despite notions of cool dying out in a blaze of post-irony, Ed Sheeran remains obsessed with his perceived status as an outsider. On his fourth album, a belated follow-up to his pre-fame EP featuring a who’s who of modern pop, he’s the loner at glitzy showbiz parties (Justin Bieber duet I Don’t Care); the everyman megastar desperate to go back to the UK “for a packet of crisps with my pint” (Take ”

rollingstone

6.0

“Gathering guests from every corner of the Top 40, the singer-songwriter contemplates aloneness, fame and marital salvation.”

pitchfork

3.8

“Ed Sheeran has bragged that he wrote seven of his new album’s songs in a combined two and a half hours. It’s easy to believe him.”