Ed Sheeran will soon release his most personal project to date. The “Perfect” singer announced that his fifth studio album, titled, will drop on May 5, according to a press release. The project comes at a time of monumental change in the musician’s life, including the birth of his second daughter with his wife Cherry Seaborn last May.
“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,” Sheeran wrote in a statement. “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.”
This period contained personal struggles, which Sheeran previously shared on Instagram, but hasn’t been further detailed until now. Among those events includes his legal victory over a copyright infringement case regarding his single 2017 hit “Shape of You,” mourning the loss of friend Jamal Edwards—who died last February at age 31—and a medical scare in his family.
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