Ed explains the song was finished for his friend Michael that passed away this year. “Visiting Hours” is a follow up to “Bad Habits” from = (Equals). Sheeran has also released a new song from the album. He also goes on to say he’s “never been more proud of a body of work”.
In his Instagram post announcing the news of the album Sheeran explained that he began writing and recording his fourth album in June 2017 but since then has been through a lot of life changing moments and said this piece of work is a “coming of age record”. “I started with quite a lot, but they all have their place and I love it, I think it’s the best bit of work that I’ve done, and it’s cohesive, and it feels great.” It’s been a kind of painstaking process, cutting it down to 14 songs. “I’ve been through, over the last sort of four years, different experiences in life, including… getting married, having a kid, losing a friend, and I just felt like the butterfly symbolism fit in with that. Basically, the symbolism behind the album is sort of new life. Speaking about the album and it’s design, Sheeran said, “You will have seen the little chrysalis cocoon that is on there. The album artwork was partially painted by Sheeran himself during lockdown, with a friend then helping him to design the finished result. A post shared by Ed Sheeran the post Ed also explained the symbolism behind the new album and how the artwork was created.
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