Illuminate

"Illuminate mixes professions of romantic agony like "Mercy" (where a quietly hummed hook explodes into crashing drums), with nice-boy valentines like "Treat You Better" and bedroom come ons like "Lights On." Two-thirds of the album is produced by Sheeran collaborator Jake Gosling, and deploys Sheeran's mix of familiar pop vestments (electric guitar solos that float with John Mayer weightlessness, gently worried vocals that owe as much to Justin Timberlake as to gospel or R&B)".

Læs anmeldelse

" It's as if the former Vine star wanted to do Handwritten 2.0. But while his own debut set the foundation, the other key influence is Mayer. Songs like "Lights On," "Like This," "No Promises," and "Ruin" bring to mind the signature guitar licks from the Grammy winner's critically acclaimed Continuum, which just this month turned 10".