Listen: Ed Sheeran - "Fall"

As we await the expected 2012 U.S. release of + (Plus) from rising Brit nu-folkie Ed Sheeran, we get a quick taste with this four-tracker, just out this week and featuring "The A-Team", the major U.K. hit that's paved the way for big sales and sold-out shows across the pond. While we've sung the praises of Sheeran (and +) before we were taken once again with "Fall", a song from the new EP and one that Sheeran recorded in 2010 with singer/songwriter Amy Wadge. Sheeran's love of hip-hop rhyme and electro-beats have given his more recent songs a sharply coiled twist to his eclectic acoustics but "Fall" sounds more like a Damien Rice/Lisa Hannigan lovefest of sweet and simple pleasures.

Ed Sheeran - "Fall" (from The A-Team EP)