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Name       .:. Ed Sheeran - Subtract

Genre       :  Pop
Source      :  CDDA
Type       .:. Album

Artist      :  Ed Sheeran
Label       :  Warner Music International (Warner)
Titel       :  Subtract

Tracks      :  18
Playtime    :  61:33
Size        :  352,89MB

Encoder     :  FLAC 1.3.1
Quality     :  799 kbps

[ Tracklist ]

01.Boat                                                  03:06
02.Salt Water                                            04:00
03.Eyes Closed                                           03:15
04.Life Goes On                                          03:30
05.Dusty                                                 03:43
06.End Of Youth                                          03:51
07.Colourblind                                           03:29
08.Curtain                                               03:45
09.Borderline                                            03:58
10.Spark                                                 03:35
11.Vega                                                  02:58
12.Sycamore                                              02:50
13.No Strings                                            02:54
14.The Hills Of Aberfeldy                                03:15
15.Wildflowers                                           02:58
16.Stoned                                                03:17
17.Toughest                                              03:34
18.Moving                                                03:35

Total  61:33 Min

Ed Sheeran has announced his sixth studio album,
entitled – and pronounced “subtract”.

The fifth and final entry in his series of albums
titled with mathematical symbols, Sheeran wrote and
recorded its 14 tracks with Aaron Dessner, a member
of US alt-rock band the National who also had a
major creative role in Taylor Swift’s Folklore and
Evermore. It will be released on 5 May.

It is billed as a return to traditional singer-
songwriter performance, after the polished pop of
much of Sheeran’s catalogue; a press release
promises songs ranging from “pared back, folk-
leaning textures to bolder, full-band/orchestral
arrangements”.
Cover art for Ed Sheeran album -, aka Subtract.
Cover art for Ed Sheeran album – . Photograph:
Asylum/Atlantic

In a statement accompanying the album announcement,
Sheeran said he had scrapped 10 years of work on –
(initially intended as a purely acoustic album) that
had resulted in hundreds of songs, after a series of
events in his personal life in early 2022. “In just
over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work
with my deepest darkest thoughts,” he said.

These events included his pregnant wife being
diagnosed with “a tumour with no route to treatment
until after the birth”; the death of “best friend …
a brother to me” Jamal Edwards, the music
entrepreneur whose platform SBTV helped launch
Sheeran’s career; and the trial for plagiarism he
eventually won in April 2022, when he had been
accused of copying another song for his hit Shape of
You.

“I was spiralling through fear, depression and
anxiety,” Sheeran said. “For the first time I’m not
trying to craft an album people will like, I’m
merely putting something out that’s honest and true
to where I am in my adult life.”

The album announcement is also accompanied by two
new portraits of Sheeran by photographer Annie
Leibovitz.

– follows 2021’s =, which like all but one of his
previous albums reached No 1 in both the UK and US.
Its singles Bad Habits and Shivers also both topped
the UK chart, and a duet with Taylor Swift, The
Joker and the Queen, reached No 2.

Since the album’s release, Sheeran has appeared on a
globetrotting series of tracks, ranging from
Nigeria’s Burna Boy to Colombia’s J Balvin,
Argentina’s Paulo Londra and Jamaica’s Ishawna. Bam
Bam, a collaboration with Cuban-American singer
Camila Cabello, was a UK Top 10 hit, and his remix
to Peru by Nigerian vocalist Fireboy DML was a
long-running hit, reaching No 2 and going two times
platinum in the UK. He also had a No 1 with his
festive Elton John collaboration Merry Christmas in
2021, and appeared on that’s year’s Christmas No 1
with Ladbaby

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New Ed Sheeran album, Subtract, informed by ‘fear,
depression and anxiety’
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Wife’s illness, plagiarism court case and death of
music entrepreneur friend Jamal Edwards all came to
bear on Sheeran’s sixth studio album, made with the
National’s Aaron Dessner
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
@ben_bt
Wed 1 Mar 2023 09.47 GMT
Last modified on Wed 1 Mar 2023 21.43 GMT

Ed Sheeran has announced his sixth studio album,
entitled – and pronounced “subtract”.

The fifth and final entry in his series of albums
titled with mathematical symbols, Sheeran wrote and
recorded its 14 tracks with Aaron Dessner, a member
of US alt-rock band the National who also had a
major creative role in Taylor Swift’s Folklore and
Evermore. It will be released on 5 May.

It is billed as a return to traditional singer-
songwriter performance, after the polished pop of
much of Sheeran’s catalogue; a press release
promises songs ranging from “pared back, folk-
leaning textures to bolder, full-band/orchestral
arrangements”.
Cover art for Ed Sheeran album -, aka Subtract.
Cover art for Ed Sheeran album – . Photograph:
Asylum/Atlantic

In a statement accompanying the album announcement,
Sheeran said he had scrapped 10 years of work on –
(initially intended as a purely acoustic album) that
had resulted in hundreds of songs, after a series of
events in his personal life in early 2022. “In just
over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work
with my deepest darkest thoughts,” he said.

These events included his pregnant wife being
diagnosed with “a tumour with no route to treatment
until after the birth”; the death of “best friend …
a brother to me” Jamal Edwards, the music
entrepreneur whose platform SBTV helped launch
Sheeran’s career; and the trial for plagiarism he
eventually won in April 2022, when he had been
accused of copying another song for his hit Shape of
You.

“I was spiralling through fear, depression and
anxiety,” Sheeran said. “For the first time I’m not
trying to craft an album people will like, I’m
merely putting something out that’s honest and true
to where I am in my adult life.”

The album announcement is also accompanied by two
new portraits of Sheeran by photographer Annie
Leibovitz.

– follows 2021’s =, which like all but one of his
previous albums reached No 1 in both the UK and US.
Its singles Bad Habits and Shivers also both topped
the UK chart, and a duet with Taylor Swift, The
Joker and the Queen, reached No 2.

Since the album’s release, Sheeran has appeared on a
globetrotting series of tracks, ranging from
Nigeria’s Burna Boy to Colombia’s J Balvin,
Argentina’s Paulo Londra and Jamaica’s Ishawna. Bam
Bam, a collaboration with Cuban-American singer
Camila Cabello, was a UK Top 10 hit, and his remix
to Peru by Nigerian vocalist Fireboy DML was a
long-running hit, reaching No 2 and going two times
platinum in the UK. He also had a No 1 with his
festive Elton John collaboration Merry Christmas in
2021, and appeared on that’s year’s Christmas No 1
with Ladbaby.
Ed Sheeran photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
Ed Sheeran photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
Photograph: Annie Leibovitz

More recently he recorded Celestial, a song featured
on the video games Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and
F64, a freestyle dedicated to Edwards.

Sheeran is currently on tour in Australia, where he
has broken the country’s record for the most tickets
sold for a single concert: 107,000 people will
attend his gig on Friday 3 March at Melbourne
Cricket Ground.

He has announced a tour of arenas closer to home
ahead of his new album release, beginning Thursday
23 March at Manchester’s AO Arena and travelling to
London, Glasgow, Dublin and Paris.

https://www.edsheeran.com/subtract