Ed Sheeran is ready to release his new album!

The 34-year-old “Shape of You” singer-songwriter confirmed his new record, Play, drops on September 12 via Gingerbread Man Records/Atlantic Records.

In celebration, he also released a new song called “Old Phone,” out Thursday (May 1).

“Play was an album that was made as a direct response to the darkest period of my life. Coming out of all of that I just wanted to create joy and technicolour, and explore cultures in the countries I was touring,” he said in a statement.

“I made this record all over the world, finished it in Goa, India, and had the most fun, explorative creative days of my life. It’s a real rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish, it encapsulates everything that I love about music, and the fun in it, but also where I am in life as a human, a partner, a father,” he continued.

“Going into this album campaign I said to myself ‘I just want everything I do to be fun and playful’ – so that’s why we are building pubs for folk jams, doing gigs on open top buses and singing in pink cowboy hats on bars. The older I get the more I just want to enjoy things, and savour the moments that are mad and chaotic. You can preorder Play now, many many more playful things to come before it’s out x”

Keep reading to find out more…

Listen to “Old Phone”…

PLAY TRACKLIST:

1. Opening
2. Sapphire
3. Azizam
4. Old Phone
5. Symmetry
6. Camera
7. In Other Words
8. A LIttle More
9. Slowly
10. Don’t Look Down
11. The Vow
12. For Always
13. Heaven

Read the lyrics of “Old Phone”…

Ed Sheeran has launched a new Instagram account to share photos he found on his old phone to celebrate “Old Phone.” The Grammy-winning singer retired the phone in 2015, but had to look through the old phone during a copyright lawsuit for his 2014 song “Thinking Out Loud.” Find out what he found!