In 2015, Jamie Lawson was the first artist signed to Ed Sheeran's label Gingerbread Man Records. The pair go back, having bonded when Sheeran met Lawson, 15 years his senior, at an early gig, before either's career took flight, and share a snappy sense of rhythm and a way with a lyrical yarn. Beyond Lawson's breakthrough track “Wasn't Expecting That” (A No. 1 in Ireland in 2011 which, along with a folkish burr to his voice, has led many to believe that Plymouth-raised Lawson is Irish), he's got a rich back catalogue of warm and uplifting guitar pop: dive in.