Ed Sheeran is Currently Working on an Album He Plans to Release After his Death

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Ed Sheeran is Currently Working on an Album He Plans to Release After his Death

The superstar has a secret plan to release music after his death — and seven other things we learned from his Rolling Stone cover interviews.

Some people make after-party plans, Ed Sheeran makes survival plans. The singer told Rolling Stone that he has already started working on his latest album. As his upcoming May 5 - (Reduce) comes full circle with his cycle of five math-themed studio albums, Sheeran said he will outline his next five releases, as well as a posthumous collection that will be constantly updated throughout his life.

Sheeran, 32, told RS: "I want to slowly make this quote 'perfect' for the rest of my life, adding songs here and there. And it's right in my will that it appears after I die."

The singer also revealed that working with friend Taylor Swift's recent collaborator Aaron Dessner of The National on Subtract, the duo produced enough material for a second album. After selecting 1
songs for Math's latest album, Sheeran said he chose three more that felt "too happy", realizing they felt like the start of a different musical journey.

"It became clear very quickly that we were doing two different things," Sheeran said, adding that he and Dessner then wrote an entire second album, which the in-demand producer is currently mixing. At press time, no release date or title for the compilation had been announced, with Sheeran explaining, "I don't have any goals for the record. I just want to get it out there."

But Sheeran pulls back the curtain on his journey to stardom, personal life and musical inspiration in the upcoming Disney documentary Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All. The four-part series, which will be released worldwide on May 3, is described as the story of "how an unlikely child with a stutter rose to fame to become one of the biggest global music superstars and how his bestsellers were born. ."

The Disney original series features exclusive content from Sheeran's archive, interviews with his loved ones, and intimate performances. “I have always been very careful in my personal and private life; The only documentary I ever made focused on songwriting,” Sheeran said in a press release. "Disney asked me to do a four-part documentary and it felt like the right time to open the door and let people in. I hope people enjoy it."

Sheeran will release his new single 'Eyes Closed' on Friday (March 24), which RS described as built around a "pinching pizzicato riff built on an octave-jumping chorus as big as anything in Sheeran's catalog". The magazine cited lyrics including: "I'm dancing with my eyes closed/Because everywhere I look, I still see you...I imagined this month a little different/Nobody's ever ready."