It is an album of louche pop tunes, leaning towards disco here, towards scat (of all things) there. Fine Line, which he released in 2019, seemed more comfortable with his pop sensibilities, and on Harry’s House, he seems more, ahem, at home. Harry Styles stretches his musical wings in his third album (Photo: the intervening years, he seems to have relaxed. He shied away from press around that time, too, and the few journalists he did speak to (funnily enough, they all seemed to be men) were allowed to learn so little about him from his careful answers that they unlocked absolutely nothing new. Styles kneeling at the altar of Real Music didn’t feel natural – it felt stressed out and forced, borne of too many cooks and not enough Styles. That first album was a fairly solid but unexciting debut into the world of Solo Rockstar. His third album, Harry’s House, sees him stretch his musical wings, forgoing the reverence of the eponymous debut’s rock’n’roll and instead building on Fine Line’s forays into a world beyond guitars. Does Harry Styles need any introduction? The one-time One Direction heartthrob, who has morphed into the kind of star even your gran thinks of fondly, has spent the years since the boy band’s “hiatus” finding his voice, moving into acting, and falling in love.
