Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran rewinds on the latest single “Old Cellphone” from the upcoming studio album Play, It can be doubled as a time capsule and a delivery device for resurfacing. The musician teased the record earlier this week, with one of the Instagram accounts filled with photos stored on the iPhone he stopped using in 2015. Like images, the “old phone” is grainy, nostalgic and a reminder of how much has changed over the past decade. and PlaySeptember 12, Sheeran wants to move towards a better day.

“Play” is an album, a direct response to the darkest period of my life, Sheeran shared in a statement. “From all of this, I just want to create joy and technology and explore culture in the country I toured. ” Play The singer and lyricist visited Goa, India and completed records of all the different locations. It brings him ease, giving him some of the “most interesting and exploratory creative era of my life”.

“From the beginning to the end, it’s a real emotional roller coaster that encapsulates everything I love about music and all the fun in my life as a human, a companion, a father,” Sheeran said. He first previewed the album with “Azizam”, an optimistic, energetic single about putting it on the dance floor. “Entering this album movement, I said to myself, ‘I just want everything I do to be fun and playful.’”

Sheeran first previews the “old cell phone” in a live show Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon In March. There, he traced its origins to several lawsuits he was involved in, asking him to flip old devices, including a phone that he stopped using in 2015, when he used emails only on his tablet. When he opened it, he was pulled back by news of two friends who died, an ex-girlfriend he was quarreling with, and an estranged family member whom he hadn't spoken to for a decade. “I’m rolling,” Sheeran said at the time. “It really sets me apart.”

Sheeran may tend to be melancholy while promoting Playbut he has always been happy and let go of everything. “That’s why we’re building bars for folk jam, doing gigs on open buses and singing with pink cowboy hats on the bar,” he said. “The older I’m, the more I want to enjoy things and taste crazy and messy moments.”

Play It is the first part of Sheeran's new album series. Then Rewind, fast forward, and stopcontinue his tradition In addition, multiply, divide, subtract, and equality.

Play Track list
1. “open”
2. “sapphire”
3. “my dear”
4. “Old phone”
5. “symmetry”
6. “camera”
7. “in other words”
8. “More”
9. “Slowly”
10. “Don't bow your head”
11. “oath”
12. “forever”
13. “Heaven”