"As a touring artist, I'm not always able to soak up the places I visit,"
"The older I get, I want to make sure I capture the places I'm lucky enough to visit, so I can look back on them with my kids."
"I made this record all over the world, finished it in Goa, India, and had some of 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. The older I get, the more I just want to enjoy things, and savour the moments that are mad and chaotic."
Ed Sheeran spent three and a half years touring globally on his Mathematics Tour, visiting countries from Belgium and Lithuania to Bhutan and Bahrain. To more deeply experience destinations, he spent a month in India while recording his eighth studio album, Play. He collaborated with Indian musicians and Arijit Singh, producing the single Sapphire and releasing a reworked version featuring Hindi and Punjabi vocals. Play was created after a dark period and aimed to capture joy, technicolor, and cultural exploration. Sheeran finished the record in Goa, describing the process as fun, explorative, and emotionally varied.
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