“As an artist I don’t feel like I can believably put a body of work out into the world that doesn’t accurately represent where I am and how I need to express myself at this point in my life,” the 32 -year- previously stated. “This album is just that. It opens the trap of my soul. For the first time I’m not trying to make an album that people want. life.”
Concluding that the album was “last February’s diary entry and my way of making sense of it,” Sheeran added, “This is lessening.”
This is the last period of his mathematical album, which started in 2011 with the debut album + (In addition). It has since been expanded to x (multiply), ÷ (Divide) and = (both). The tracklist for the project—produced by The Nationalof Aron Dessner—includes the songs “Boat,” “Salt Water,” “Eys Closed,” “Life Goes On,” “Dusty,” “End Of Youth,” “Colourblind,” “Curtains,” “Borderline,” “Spark , “Vega ,” “Sycamore,” “No Strings” and “The Hills of Aberfeldy.”
-, (lessening), will be available to stream on May 5.