When Ed Sheeran performed in South Africa back in 2019, he took some time to work with some of Mzansi’s brightest stars as he continued to explore his love for African music. One of these stars was pop sensation Jeremy Loops. Jeremy revealed that he wrote two tracks with Ed and he’s finally ready to share them with the world. As he announces his new album ‘Heard You Got Love’, which drops on 8 July, Loops has dropped his new single ‘Better Together’.
‘Better Together’, an ode to the triumph of the collective, was co-written by Jeremy, Ed, and Sheeran’s frequent collaborators, Johnny McDaid and Steve Mac (the duo that wrote the mega-hit ‘Shape of You’ alongside Ed Sheeran). Ed and Jeremy first met a few years ago and instantly hit it off at the private party that followed Sheeran’s first stadium show in South Africa. “He said I was a better loop artist than he is,” Jeremy jokes. “Very kind, but not true! But we are very similar artists, in many aspects of our jobs. We spent the night hanging out and talking shop, and he suggested we write together.”
The single release comes alongside the announcement of Jeremy’s long-awaited third album ‘Heard You Got Love’ – an album of head-bopping anthems perfect for sunny days ahead. The record also includes a very special collaboration with his childhood favourites Ladysmith Black Mambazo called ‘This Town’, which was released last year.
Jeremy is a self-taught musician that picked up his first guitar in university. As his love for writing grew, he penned melodies while working aboard superyachts, where he worked his way up from deckhand to yacht master. Obsessed with squeezing music into every day on shore and evening on deck, Jeremy’s trusty loop pedal followed him around his tour of the seas.
“This is the album I’ve always wanted to make and my hope is that some of the things I’ve written about will mean as much to others as they do to me. Every song speaks to something I care deeply about,” Jeremy says of the upcoming record.
‘Heard You Got Love’ allowed Jeremy to explore more technical aspects of recording than he has previously. The record came to life in Jeremy’s home studio in between daily dips in the ocean. Having collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Simone Felice (The Lumineers), Jake Gosling (Shawn Mendes), Tobias Kuhn (Milky Chance) and Carey Willets (Dermot Kennedy), Jeremy brought on a fleet of high end producers for the album, including Ed Holloway (Lewis Capaldi), Eg White (Adele) and Cam Blackwood (George Ezra).
Listen to ‘Better Together’ below and read more music news here.
