4/17/2023 0 Comments Audials 2019 download“I felt like I was drowning, head below the surface, looking up but not being able to break through for air. I was spiralling through fear, depression and anxiety. 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. “Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth. And in just over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts. I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out. 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. In Ed’s own words: “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. An album that revisits Ed’s singer/songwriter roots and one that was written against a backdrop of personal grief and hope, ‘-’ (Subtract) presents one of the biggest stars on the planet at his most vulnerable and honest. Ed Sheeran is set to release his new album ‘-‘ (Subtract) – the last in his decade-spanning mathematical album era – on May 5, 2023, through Kelley/ Atlantic.
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