All month Ed Sheeran has been letting the world know he’s releasing a brand new autumn-themed album. Now we all know the main points. Autumn Variations will arrive Sept. 29, lower than 5 months for the reason that launch of Subtract, the final of his 4 albums named for arithmetic operations. (It looks like perhaps he’s gonna do albums for all 4 of the seasons now?) Like Subtract, Autumn Variations was produced by the Nationwide’s Aaron Dessner, who has change into the go-to producer for pop singer-songwriter varieties in Taylor Swift’s orbit ever since she recruited him for folklore, and who is aware of a factor or two about autumnal music.

An announcement from Sheeran:

Final autumn, I discovered that my associates and I had been going by way of so many life modifications. After the warmth of the summer season, all the pieces both calmed, settled, fell aside, got here to a head or imploded.

Once I went by way of a tough time initially of final yr, writing songs helped me perceive my emotions and are available to phrases with what was occurring, and after I discovered about my pal’s completely different conditions, I wrote songs, some from their views, some from mine, to seize how they and I considered the world at the moment. There have been highs of falling in love and new friendships amongst lows of heartbreak, despair, loneliness and confusion.

My dad and brother instructed me a few composer known as Elgar, who composed “Enigma Variations,” the place every of the 14 compositions had been a few completely different considered one of his associates. That is what impressed me to make this album. Once I recorded Subtract with Aaron Dessner, we clicked instantly. We wrote and recorded continuous and this album was born out of that partnership. I really feel he has captured the sensation of autumn so splendidly in his sonics and I hope everybody loves it as a lot as I do.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Magical”
02 “England”
03 “Superb”
04 “Plastic Bag”
05 “Blue”
06 “American City”
07 “That’s On Me”
08 “Web page”
09 “Midnight”
10 “Spring”
11 “Punchline”
12 “When Will I Be Alright”
13 “The Day I Was Born”
14 “Head > Heels”

Autumn Variations is out 9/29 on Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Data.