Ed Sheeran has new music on the way, and the English singer is revealing how emotional pain in his personal life informed and influenced his new album.Sheeran dropped a press release on Wednesday, revealing that his long-awaited new album,, will be hitting shelves May 5, and explained the creative journey that the album took over the past few years.«I had been working on for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be,» Sheeran shared in his statement. «Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.»According to the «Bad Habits» singer, a series of misfortune and tragedy struck — from his wife, Cherry Seaborn, finding out she had a tumor to the death of a close friend, and the stress of fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit.«Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth.