Ed Sheeran came up with some pretty creative ways to promote his new album Autumn Variations, and his latest strategy may be the wildest one yet. The British hitmaker revealed that he recorded a live version of his new album—using fans’ homes as his studio.
Sheeran’s new album Autumn Variations is hitting the shelves on September 29, and it’s his first non-collaborative album outside of his signature mathematical series. It draws inspiration from Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, and each of the songs on this record is inspired by one of Sheeran’s friends.
He’s also planning to release a live version of Autumn Variations, and this album came together in a pretty interesting way.
“So I did some surprise pop-up gigs in fans’ houses, secretly recording a live album of Autumn Variations where each song is recorded in a different fans’ living room, but all of it was a total surprise,” wrote Sheeran on social media.
The singer teased the live version of his upcoming album by sharing a video from the home of his fan Kari Conaway. After playing one of the Autumn Variations songs, Conaway took him on a house tour, and he agreed to play another song on the piano: “Wake Me Up” from his debut studio album Plus.
