Photo by Hanna Moon

05/23/22

By: Sara Resnik

Harry Styles third studio album, ‘Harry’s House’, is finally out! One of the most anticipated pop albums of the year has finally made its way to adorn our Spotify and Apple Music libraries.  

The title, being inspired by Japanese rockstar Haroumi Hosono’s ‘Hosono House’, the album explores the idea of home. A recurring theme across his music to even his early days in One Direction. With songs like “Sweet Creature’ (“you bring me home”), ‘Canyon Moon’ (“Two weeks and I’ll be home’), and ‘If I Could Fly’ (“I’ll be flying right back home to you”).

The opening to ‘Harry’s House’ with the upbeat and funky ‘Music for a Sushi Restaurant’ sets the tone for the rest of the songs to come. The album possesses 80s-like-feeling and groovy beats, with songs like ‘Late Night Talking’ and 'Daydreaming’ filled up with joyful lyrics and catchy melodies. Also, with Cinema’s sensual and cool vibe that feels like it should be part of the Austin Powers universe.

‘Daylight’ is filled with intricate lyrics and a catchy beat about the frustration from a long-distance relationship. “It’s one of my favorites,” Styles said in his latest interview in the Howard Stern Show. “It was kind of a stream of consciousness writing that happened kind of late.”

But this couldn’t be a true Harry Styles album if it didn’t contain songs that make you bawl your eyes out. ‘Matilda’ and ‘Boyfriends’ acoustic simplicity will make these songs even more heartbreaking with Styles’ powerful voice and his meaningful lyrics, such as “You can throw a party full of everyone you know and not invite your family 'cause they never showed you love,” from ‘Matilda’.

It’s safe to say this is one his best works we’ve heard so far, “This is my favorite album. I love it so much,” Styles said in his latest interview with Zane Lowe for Apple music. “It was also made so much more intimately […] everything was played for a very small amount of people in a room, so to me it’s everything that I’ve wanted to make in a lot of ways.”

Listen to Harry’s House!

Album cover: Courtesy Columbia Records