Genre: Pop
Release Date: May 27, 2022
An Asylum Records UK release, a division of Atlantic Records UK, ℗ 2022 Warner Music UK Limited, with the exception of tracks 1-14 (P) 2021, track 15 (P) 2020 and track 23 (p) 2021 YBL Nation/EMPIRE, An Island records/Empire release
“The theme of the record is me turning 30, becoming a dad, losing a friend, trying to balance work and marriage,” Ed Sheeran tells Apple Music of his fourth full-length LP, =. “It’s stuff that really has meant a lot to me.” The follow-up to 2017’s all-conquering ÷ was originally conceived as an acoustic record, with Sheeran setting up in Nashville way back in 2018 to work. You’ll find tracks from that time here (“First Times,” “Love in Slow Motion”), but—with Sheeran...