In a chat with Entertainment Weekly about Songwriter, the 27-year-old musician discussed what’s next after his Divide album.
“The next project I’m going to do is completely out of my comfort zone —completely,” he says.
When asked exactly how it’s different, he said “I don’t think there’s an acoustic guitar on it. Which to be an acoustic singer-songwriter, it’s different. But it’s not an album or a mixtape or anything, it’s just a collection of songs that will just come out.”
Sheeran adds that unlike the promotion for ÷, and even his X and + albums, there will be very little on this collection.
“I don’t really want to promote it, I just want to stick it out,” Sheeran says. “I feel like I need to clear the air a little bit after ÷, because it was such a pop thing. I just feel like the next thing, if I came out with an album next, people would compare it to ÷ and want it to be bigger and sell more.”
“I kind of learned from looking at how Drake does it. Drake puts out these albums that are huge but then in between he sticks out projects and however big the project is, it doesn’t really matter because it’s not the album, if that makes sense. It just clears the air for the next album.”
