Jack Garratt - Phase, review: 'believe the hype'

Buckinghamshire’s Jack Garratt has risen from Junior Eurovision failure to his current status as an edgier Ed Sheeran – he performs and records solo – with a BRITs Critics Choice Award on his mantelpiece before he’s released an album.

It sounds almost too trite to be true, but Phase will quash the doubters. It’s a smorgasbord of ideas, some big, some small, but nearly all thrilling.

He’s unafraid to reach for the stars, hence the massive gospel-tinged choruses of Weathered and the anthemic scarf-waver Surprise Yourself, but the haunting Erik Satie-style minimalism of The Love You’re Given and My House Is Your Home show he’s just as ready to embrace intimate.