Ed Sheeran announces final mathematical album

completemusicupdate.com:

Ed Sheeran has announced that he will release new album ‘-‘ in May, completing his series of mathematically titled LPs.Pronounced ‘Subtract’, the album will featured stripped back, acoustic songs, and was co-written and produced last year by The National’s Aaron Dessner – whom Sheeran met through his good mate Taylor Swift.

Dessner, of course, having worked with Swift on her ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ albums.In a post on social media announcing the album, Sheeran revealed that the album has been in the making for many years, but that he scrapped all of his previous work and started afresh last year.“I had been working on ‘Subtract’ for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be”, he writes. “Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art”.“Writing songs is my therapy”, he continues. “It helps me make sense of my feelings.

I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out. And in just over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts.

Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth. My best friend Jamal, a brother to me, died suddenly and I found myself standing in court defending my integrity and career as a songwriter.