Ed Sheeran is lower than a month away from finishing his mathematical album equation with – (Subtract), and on Friday (April 21), he dropped the album’s opener.
“Boat” serves as a metaphor for melancholy, in response to the singer, and its corresponding music video cements the message with its turbulent seaside landscapes. “‘Boat’ is the primary tune I wrote and completed for Subtract, it’s the place all of it started, and a great way to kick off the album,” Sheeran wrote on Instagram saying the only earlier this week.
The tune follows lead single “Eyes Closed” because the second providing from the upcoming album, which is about to reach in full on Could 5 as the ultimate chapter of the mathematically themed albums he started with 2011’s + (Plus).
“I had been engaged on Subtract for a decade, attempting to sculpt the right acoustic album, writing and recording a whole lot of songs with a transparent imaginative and prescient of what I believed it must be. Then at the beginning of 2022, a sequence of occasions modified my life, my psychological well being, and finally the way in which I seen music and artwork,” Sheeran beforehand shared about Subtract.
Two days earlier than the album arrives, the four-part documentary Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All will start streaming on Disney+ beginning Could 3, that includes never-before-seen private archive clips, interviews and performances.
Watch the “Boat” music video beneath.
