Ed Sheeran’s third album will almost certainly be the biggest selling British album of the year. There are 12 tracks, and each is perfectly formed.

This is a set of direct, punchy, melodic, catchy, meaningful songs, with verses and choruses in all the right places. They are beautifully sung and delivered with a compelling and endearing mixture of charismatic swagger and emotional honesty. The quality doesn’t let up from beginning to end. It is very good. And if you can feel a “but” coming on, it is a very small one. Like Adele’s third blockbuster album, 25, it does not push into new places or extend the range of the artist, rather it offers a perfect synthesis of everything that has made them so universally popular.

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