Ed Sheeran Previews Collaboration With Dave Grohl, John Mayer

F1 the Album will characteristic 17 tracks, together with contributions from Sheeran, Doja Cat, Burna Boy, Raye, Tate McRae, Don Toliver, Madison Beer, Rosé, Tiësto, and Chris Stapleton. Up to now “Lose My Thoughts,” from Toliver and Doja, and “Messy,” from Rosé, have been launched.

Directed and produced by Joseph Kosinski alongside co-executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, F1 stars Brad Pitt as washed-up “best that by no means was” driver Sonny Hayes, who agrees to return out of retirement to assist his pal and former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem) save his struggling racing group, Apex Grand Prix. His new teammate, Joshua “Noah” Pearce (Damson Idris), is a rookie upstart with all of the uncooked expertise and not one of the expertise, and the 2 will battle for the checkered flag in a cutthroat sport the place nobody shares a podium — a lot much less a championship.

Sheeran is making ready to unveil his subsequent studio album, Play, on Sept. 12. “Play was an album that was made as a direct response to the darkest interval of my life,” Sheeran shared in a press release. “Popping out of all of that I simply needed to create pleasure and technicolour, and discover cultures within the nations I used to be touring.” The LP was recorded in all of the totally different places the singer-songwriter visited and accomplished in Goa, India. It introduced a lightness again to him, giving him a few of “essentially the most enjoyable, explorative inventive days of my life.”

He first previewed the album with “Azizam,” an upbeat, vibrant single about letting go on the dance ground, and has since shared “Previous Cellphone.” Play is the primary installment in a brand new collection of albums from Sheeran. It will likely be adopted by Rewind, Quick-Ahead, and Cease, persevering with the custom he began with Plus, Multiply, Divide, Subtract, and Equals.