MADRID, 15 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
British singer Ed Sheeran has previewed part of the songs that make up his new studio album ‘-‘ (Subtract) in an intimate concert before a group of his most loyal fans this Saturday in Madrid.
The Círculo de Bellas Artes has been the setting chosen by the author of ‘Shape of you’ to publicize eight of the fourteen songs on the album that will close the series of mathematical symbols that began in 2011 with ‘ ‘ and that will go on sale next May 5th.
Accompanied by his inseparable guitar and piano, the singer-songwriter, winner of several Grammys, has been reeling off the songs one by one and explaining the story behind all of them.
He has started with ‘Boat’, the first one he composed for the album and which opens it, to continue with ‘Salt Water’. Sheeran has recognized that composing has been especially “catarchic” for him because it has allowed him to talk about everything that has happened to him.
Next came his new single, ‘Eyes Closed’, released just three weeks ago and with the clear hallmark of Sheeran’s hits.
In it, the artist narrates the emptiness and sadness caused by the loss of a loved one, in his case his friend Jamal Edwards, and the difficulty of moving on with life, hence why he opts to keep his “eyes closed”. .
Then came ‘Life goes on’, in which he narrates how life goes on even though people have not yet overcome the loss, and ‘The end of youth’.
The singer has also talked about the change that being a father has brought about in his life and the setback that his wife’s cancer caused during the pregnancy of their second daughter, something he talks about in ‘Sycamore’.
He then played ‘No strings’ and completed the songs on the new album, albeit solo without a piano, with ‘The hills of Aberfeldy’, which closes the album and which he composed in 2012, part of which he has performed a cappella .
To complete the performance, to the delight of the around 400 attendees, Sheeran sang two of his greatest hits, both composed, as he explained, “accidentally”: ‘Perfect’ and ‘Shape of you’.
He has put the climax with ‘Bad habits’, from his previous album, which he has interspersed with some stanzas from ‘Shivers’.
This Saturday’s concert has been an appetizer both for the new album and for the tour with which Sheeran will tour Europe and North America, which at the moment does not have closed dates in Spain for this year.
Sheeran’s fifth album, not counting the collaboration album he released in 2019, has been produced by Aaron Dressner, who has worked among others with Taylor Swift, and is already on pre-sale. Precisely, to be able to attend the concert, fans had to share a proof of booking the album with which to enter a raffle for tickets.
The British singer, used to concerts with up to 100,000 spectators, has acknowledged feeling more “nervous” in front of a smaller audience but has also confessed that he likes this format better because it allows him to see the reactions of the fans to his new album, of which He has said he feels especially “proud”.
