Watch Ed Sheeran get engulfed by waves in music video for new single, ‘Boat’

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Ed Sheeran has released a new single, ‘Boat’, taken off his upcoming album, ‘-‘ (‘Subtract’).The new track – out today (April 21) – comes alongside an accompanying music video that sees the singer submerged in the sea with waves engulfing him. ‘Boat’ serves as the opening track to ‘-‘, which is due out on May 5 via Asylum/Atlantic.

Pre-order the album here.Besides being the opening track for Sheeran’s upcoming record, ‘Boat’ was also the first song the singer-songwriter penned for the record.

Per a press release, the song is “a metaphor for depression; a track that combats the struggles of feeling very low and not knowing how to break the cycle”.Watch the music video for ‘Boat’ below.‘-‘ will be Sheeran’s most personal work to date, following a string of gut-wrenching events in his life.Sheeran explained in a statement when he first announced the record: “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.

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.