X
by Ed Sheeran
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Jun 23, 2014
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 381 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 292 out of 381
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 381
  3. Negative: 62 out of 381
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  1. finnbarrh
    Apr 17, 2015
    0
    Pretty cool, inspiring and heartfelt apart from the actual music, great for young fangirls though, ill give it that. A lot of bad music with little to no end result, makes you feel like a young kid trying to tell your mum that 5am is a good bedtime, arguments are pointless and never end well, even if you enjoy the music. It's like your mum letting you stay up until 5am and then you havePretty cool, inspiring and heartfelt apart from the actual music, great for young fangirls though, ill give it that. A lot of bad music with little to no end result, makes you feel like a young kid trying to tell your mum that 5am is a good bedtime, arguments are pointless and never end well, even if you enjoy the music. It's like your mum letting you stay up until 5am and then you have got to live with the consequence of being cranky, u gotta deal with basically wasting ur time with this album. STAY AWAY… Expand
  2. Gabeamd
    Dec 27, 2014
    0
    Culpa do Pedro, porque o pedro é o culpado de tudo, culpem o pedro, 150 letras culpando o pedro, pedro, isso mesmo o pedro, vamos pedro, culpa sua, zzzz.
  3. TJAW
    Mar 18, 2015
    2
    Stunningly incompetent from the very first note, Ed Sheeran's X is an atrocious, thoroughly obnoxious waste of time. Almost every aspect of it is exceedingly lame and unoriginal. An ugly mixture of toothless, over-sentimental pop, recycled R&B and brainless hip-hop, this album is designed for every form of lowest common denominator imaginable. It's for the soccer moms who buy albums basedStunningly incompetent from the very first note, Ed Sheeran's X is an atrocious, thoroughly obnoxious waste of time. Almost every aspect of it is exceedingly lame and unoriginal. An ugly mixture of toothless, over-sentimental pop, recycled R&B and brainless hip-hop, this album is designed for every form of lowest common denominator imaginable. It's for the soccer moms who buy albums based on what they hear on the radio and the X Factor. It's for the soppy Taylor Swift-obsessed teenage girls going through their first of many heartbreaks. It's for the jobless pothead/drunk buskers who play on the streets for tips. It even aims to impress the dumb hipster gamers who think they're superior to everyone because they play indie games and nothing else; hell, some of the tracks on this album would go well as background noise for that laughably overrated "Gone Home" crap that inexplicably received a 9.5 score on GameSpot. Completely devoid of anything for real music fans to latch onto, it has just one redeeming quality - the fact that at least it could be worse. After all, this isn't a LMFAO, Nicki Minaj or Kanye West album. But it's still a complete insult to music regardless. Ed Sheeran's X is a worthless, insufferably tedious lump of modern pop manure that will be dated by the time it finally leaves the charts and gets replaced by the next album of its kind.… Expand
  4. victorcarter
    Nov 21, 2016
    3
    thinking out loud is a good song but i can't stand the personality ed conveys here- it's simultaneously pretentious and childish, the kind of tongue-in-cheek songwriting that doesn't let listeners in on the joke, and comes off as shallow in its simpleness. it doesn't help that i don't like like half of the songs here, either.
  5. NETMUSIC
    Jun 18, 2017
    1
    Rubbish. Don't like any of it apart from one song. Pharrell is the only good thing on Sing. Why Why why did her make this

    Best Song(s):
    I See Fire

    Worst Song(s):
    Don't
    Sing
  6. skylecrawling
    May 22, 2023
    2
    esse é o trabalho mais ou menos dele, os primeiros sempre são assim mas ainda não me convenceu

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#19 Most Discussed Album of 2014
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#12 Most Shared Album of 2014

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. PopMatters
    Jul 28, 2014
    60
    The album is good that’s for sure; Sheeran is too talented to deliver a sub par album. It suffers in terms of consistency.
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  2. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Jul 14, 2014
    40
    Charmless kiss-offs (“Don’t”) and sappy sentiments (“People Fall in Love in Mysterious Ways”) dominate otherwise, landing with the thud of the authentically uninspiring.
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  3. Sputnikmusic
    Jul 1, 2014
    40
    X is a vapid and overly confident album that feels more like regression than progression for Ed Sheeran's indie folk sound.
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