Multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has announced that he will be releasing his brand new album Autumn Variations on September 29.
Produced by Aaron Dessner, the album will be released through Gingerbread Records and is made up of 14 tracks. Inspired by the composer Elgar, Autumn Variations is an insight into Ed and his friends’ lives, with each track highlighting a different story.
Autumn Variations tracklisting:
- ‘Magical’
- ‘England’
- ‘Amazing’
- ‘Plastic Bag’
- ‘Blue’
- ‘American Town’
- ‘That’s On Me’
- ‘Page’
- ‘Midnight’
- ‘Spring’
- ‘Punchline’
- ‘When Will I Be Alright’
- ‘The Day I Was Born’
- ‘Head > Heels’
Speaking about the album, Ed says: “Last autumn, I found that my friends and I were going through so many life changes. After the heat of the summer, everything either calmed, settled, fell apart, came to a head or imploded.”
“When I went through a difficult time at the start of last year, writing songs helped me understand my feelings and come to terms with what was going on, and when I learned about my friend’s different situations, I wrote songs, some from their perspectives, some from mine, to capture how they and I viewed the world at that time. There were highs of falling in love and new friendships among lows of heartbreak, depression, loneliness and confusion.”
“My dad and brother told me about a composer called Elgar, who composed ‘Enigma Variations’, where each of the 14 compositions were about a different one of his friends. This is what inspired me to make this album. When I recorded Subtract with Aaron Dessner, we clicked immediately. We wrote and recorded non-stop and this album was born out of that partnership. I feel he has captured the feeling of autumn so wonderfully in his sonics and I hope everyone loves it as much as I do.”
Autumn Variations is the follow up to Ed’s sixth studio album Subtract, which was released back in May and included the hits ‘Eyes Closed’ and ‘Boat’. To promote the album, Ed did a shift at Starbucks in Seattle which coincided with the launch of the famous pumpkin spice latte.
Pre-order Autumn Variations here.