Ahead of Ed Sheeran’s eight album release, he has promised fans they won’t be left waiting too long between singles for fresh material given the record’s “broad” range of sounds.
The singer made the promise when he appeared on the latest episode of Call Her Daddy with host Alex Cooper speaking about his lyrics, his favorite memory of Taylor Swift, and the embarrassing story of being caught naked in a hotel lobby.
On the show, Sheeran also discussed his new single ‘Azizam’, set to be featured on his upcoming album play. Sheeran used his appearance on Call Her Daddy to talk about the music that is still to come in the near future while the release date for the record is yet to arrive.
“My idea was because the album is so broad, I didn’t want to just be like, ‘Here’s the single. Here’s the album,’ so there’s music coming every sort of two, three weeks,” he explains. “So there’s ‘Azizam’ now, there’s a song called ‘Old Phone’ that comes out in a couple of weeks, and then after that there’s another song coming.
“We shot all these videos and I’m less about single moments and more about, I want people to sort of feel the breadth of the record and I’m very confident that one of the songs will work, but it’s more about just putting ’em out and letting people hear some of the record before it’s out rather than what I’ve done before, which is just like, ‘Here’s my first single. Here’s the album,’ and yeah.”
On The Tonight Show, the singer gave fans a preview of “Old Phone” by playing it live. Cooper also queried the English musician as to how his new music differs compared to what he had released on previous albums.
“It’s definitely different. I think I’ve been more explorative with this album,” Sheeran explained. “I kind of had an attitude of ‘Why the f–k not?’ and not really felt like I have to be in a box of being a singer-songwriter, of like, ‘I have to do this or I have to do that,’ and I lived in India for a little bit and worked with a load of Indian musicians and producers and blah, blah, blah.
“I made a song like ‘Azizam’ with Ilya who’s Persian and that’s in that world and ‘Old Phone’ I think is more in a Nashville country world and there’s just lots of different moments on the record, and the record is called Play and therefore it has to be playful. It has to be celebratory.”
