Ed Sheeran has announced the surprise release of a new album next month. Once again produced by Aaron Dessner (the executive producer of Subtract, who also worked with Taylor Swift on Folklore and Evermore), Autumn Variations will be released on September 29. In a statement, Ed says: “Last autumn, I found that my friends and I were going through so many life changes. After the heat of the summer, everything either calmed, settled, fell apart, came to a head or imploded.