Autumn Variations in White Vinyl
Ed Sheeran
Release Date: ย September 29, 2023 – Available for pre-order
Ed Sheeran is releasing his new album Autumn Variations. The album has been produced by Aaron Dessner and features 14 new tracks.
โLast 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,โ says Ed Sheeran.
โWhen 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 friendโs 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.โ
โMy dad and brother told me about a composer called Elgar, who composed โEnigma Variationsโ, 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.โ
