Harry's House
| Harry Styles
Harry's House
Harry's House is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Harry Styles, released on 20 May 2022 by Columbia and Erskine Records. The album was largely written and recorded during 2020 and 2021 and has been noted as Styles most introspective work. Musically, it is inspired by city pop and features pop-funk, pop rock, synth-pop and R&B styles. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Harry Styles’ melodious third solo album sometimes lacks substance, but style always abounds.
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Rolling Stone
Harry Styles delivers sleek, heartfelt pop pleasures on his great third album.
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The New York Times
Harry Styles Is Still a Dreamy Cipher on His Third LP, ‘Harry’s House’.
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NPR
If Styles is a student of music as well as a fan, he's one with a cadre of preeminent professors not yet moved to greatness himself. But those are the perils of pastiche: In paying such deep homage to his idols, Styles is smothering his own vision, if it yet exists in any purposeful way.
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The Washington Post
The heartthrob’s new album is pleasant and mild and distinctly unadventurous, calculated to occasionally titillate but never offend.
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Variety
Six and a half years after Harry Styles took his final bow with One Direction, it’s possible to imagine a sizable portion of his audience has no memory of his time with the group that vaulted him to stardom. And at 28, no longer so young, he’s built himself an enviable solo career that “Harry’s House” goes a long way toward furthering.
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PopMatters
Harry Styles demonstrates his genuine affinity for modern pop with Harry’s House, as he stands out amidst a collection of pandemic-influenced bedroom offerings.
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The Guardian
shimmering, in-the-mood melodies. 4/5
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Grazia Magazine
Like the comfort and vulnerability we find in our own homes, it’s clear, this really is Harry’s house. And it’s his best album yet.
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NME
The former One Directioner has described this record as his “biggest and the most fun, but by far the most intimate”. It's also his best yet.
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American Songwriter
Harry Styles’s Third Album is His Most Vibrant & Complex to Date.
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No Taste
This album is a whole-body experience: the poppy beats tap dancing on your eardrums, the warm tingle you feel in your cheeks as Styles sings “you pop when we get intimate”, toes-tapping to the brassy beats of Daydream.
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CheatSheet
After self-awareness and reflection comes freedom, and Harry’s House finds Styles embracing who he is and his sound, giving his future and what listeners take away from Harry’s House limitless possibilities.
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Beats Per Minute
This jack of all trades, who is never without a stitch to wear, is growing up to be an icon whose path will be studied in Success in the Music Industry 101. This year he’s headlined Coachella, spent weeks upon weeks at number 1 in the UK charts, has two movies coming out and will even reading the CBeebies Bedtime Story on the BBC kids’ channel. He is turning us all into impressionable teens salivating for his next track. Harry will steal your summer playlist and with the indulgent Christmas bells closing “As it Was” he may just take you through your Love, Actually streaming season. You won’t be ashamed of being wild about Harry.
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The Young Folks
Perhaps in a similar sense, the album as a whole encapsulates the kind of music that this summer season needs. It’s unapologetically romantic, expertly produced, and sweet on the ears, with just enough depth and artistic flair to pull listeners below the surface level. And this wide appeal accomplishes exactly what Harry wanted to create: a sense of familiarity and comfort not based on any tangible location, but rather on the mindset, people, and music that we surround ourselves with. Harry’s House is just Harry’s version of this, and it’s undeniably fun to be inside of.
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The Tower
Harry Styles has put a little something of a home out in the world for whoever needs it, open arms. I know that I, among so many others, am so thankful for that.
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Renowned For Sound
'Harry’s House’ is a perfect next step in Styles’ still young solo career. It is a record that shows he is continuing to evolve his musical style, and yet another layer of maturity is apparent in the lyrics and the music in general that makes up this album. Whilst not every song on ‘Harry’s House’ hits the mark, the majority do, and showcase the talent Styles has developed in a number of different ways.
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Voxatl
“Harry’s House” is an album I’ll be coming back to a lot this year. It has this comfy atmosphere that reminds me of a warm breakfast on a calm summer day surrounded by all my friends. There’s something so comforting about it that stays with me with each new listen. It balances its whimsy and fun tracks with more lowkey and somber tracks that all complement each other really nicely. Each time I listen to it I find something new I love about it or a new detail in the production I’ve not noticed before. It’s equal parts fun and whimsical as it is grounded and reflective of the somber aspects of life. Harry Styles has created the quintessential album for the summer.
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Spectrum Culture
Harry Styles hits new strides in both his pop hits and his deep cuts.
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Stereogum
Styles’ longstanding taste for classic-pop/rock eras still rules the day, but three albums in, the former One Directioner has really come into his own as a tastemaker with a succinct — though still evolving — sound and vision. Harry’s House is a very, very, very fine house.
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tmm
Altogether, Harry’s House is safe, but well done. As Styles works to find his new sound, he stumbles upon brilliance before returning to more questionable choices, lyrically and instrumentally. These inconsistencies can be frustrating, but when Harry Styles hits his stride, it makes the journey of listening to Harry’s House worthwhile.
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Esquire
Harry Styles's New Album Is a Shimmying, Strutting Ode to the Ordinary.
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The Bulletin
Many of the songs on Harry’s House rely on very brief verses to set up explosive choruses and instrumental breakdowns, but, at times, this feels like a choice that prioritizes style over substance. While the sparseness of this album’s songwriting offers some subtle contrast to the grandiosity of the production, sometimes the songs can feel too empty. Harry’s House arrived at the right time for Harry. Little by little, he’s inching his way towards a complete espousal of his pop stardom without sacrificing the sounds that he loves and his commitment to working with a small group of collaborators. Hopefully, the next album won’t find him playing it so safe.
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The Indiependent
Harry’s House feels like the most intimate look into the singer’s mind to date. The album is filled with tracks about change, healing, and love in a time when we need it most. Whilst being vastly different from his two previous works, this album feels the most representative of Harry Styles as a person and a musician. The overall mellow tone that the LP takes on highlights a more authentic side to the global superstar.
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PantherNOW
The storytelling of each song is accompanied by a mixture of instruments and melodies. Trumpets, guitars and drums were the stars of many of the songs alongside Styles’ self harmonies. Every album that Styles releases is an improvement and expands his horizons as an artist.
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Square One Magazine
‘Keep Driving’, ‘Boyfriends’ and ‘Love of My Life’ all have tremendous substance but do appear as this album’s more forgettable tracks, with relentless mentions of his extravagant, drug and sex heavy lifestyle. However, there is a diamond in the rough which shines through at the end in the form of ‘Satellite’ the layering is pristine, a song truly remarkable.
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The Fader
On Harry’s House, the only true task is to keep up. In making this self-contained record, Styles is finally trusting his gut instinct, pulling an odd thread of curiosity without looking behind his shoulder to see if anyone is following him.
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Spin
Harry’s House reinforces Styles’ signature sensitivity in an authentic way and shows he’s more than earned his place as one of music’s most innovative artists. More importantly, he reminds us that he’s a pop star playing by his own rules—and he’s here for the long haul.
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Insider
Harry Styles finally finds his way back home on 'Harry's House'.
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Medium
For Harry’s House, the deep emotional approach combined with the pining, unrequited love makes it beautiful. Beyond that, there needn’t be much more said if you don’t like it.
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The Huntington News
Both live and recorded, Styles pulls off this ambitious album with his signature wit, charm and finesse – but also makes a genuine case for the power of humility.
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Paste Magazine
Harry Styles’ Third Album Harry’s House Is a Soul-Baring, Yet Groovy Confessional.
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Hotpress
The in-no-way-terrible Harry’s House isn’t going to alter that much either way. It might not change the world, but you can be fairly sure it’s going to take it over for a while, and we've all been in tighter fixes than that.
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The Lion's Roar
Overall, with each album, we get to see more of Harry’s personality, and this is my favorite one yet. Hopefully, this is just the third of many albums to come.
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Consequence
Welcome to Harry’s House, Harry Styles’ Most Self-Assured and Thoughtfully Constructed Album to Date.
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KTSW
While my favorite album remains his self-titled debut, I think Harry’s House stands firmly on its own as an evolutionary project. Harry’s musical ingenuity can be traced throughout his albums, and his latest release sounds like if “Sunflower, vol. 6” from Fine Line was a complete work in itself. Harry’s House is not an album I will add to my daily rotation, but Harry’s ability to construct a cohesive musical entity gives the album the power to stand alone. When I’m feeling groovy I can sit beside my lava lamp and stream Harry’s House, perhaps with a glass of red wine.
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GEM Magazine
With his third studio album, the young pop-king seems to have fully grown, feet firmly planted into his own musical world, which he invites everyone to explore. Discussing topics close to everyone’s hearts, it’s a record packed with love, intimacy and personal growth, which makes it almost impossible not to relate to. So, put on your nicest clothes, prepare a story to share and welcome home to ‘Harry’s House’.
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The Arts Desk
Mellow-funkin' and often likeable third album from the One Direction star.
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DIY Magazine
While with one hand he’s exploring vivid lyrical micro-vignettes, he’s still obfuscating with the other.
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Page Six
This album is intimate, funky.
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Popsugar
It has its nostalgic moments, but it's also about healing and new love, with all the electricity that brings. It's about new beginnings and starting over in a strange but beautiful new world. It's fantastical, dreamlike, soaring, full of quotable gems, and perfect for summertime. It's also pop music for the sake of pop music. But after a disorienting and difficult few years, hearing Styles's satiny voice telling us everything is going to be OK while we're in a grocery store or a sushi restaurant may be exactly what we all need.
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iPatriotPost
Harry Styles certainly outdid himself with this new album as he was able to put out incredible music while still being able to stray from his typical style. “Harry’s House” is a raw, vulnerable work of art that I recommend to anyone looking to experience a new style of music.
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View Points Online
'Harry's House' shows artistic growth.
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The Gauntlet
Overall, Harry’s House and this new era of Styles’ music are here to stay and I’m all for it. This is a pretty darn good album. Now, please excuse me while I play all my favourite songs on repeat until my ears bleed.
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The Daily Sentinel
Throughout the record, Styles is confident, but not cocky, bringing self-awareness and ease into each song. “Harry’s House” finds him at his best — free, observant and content.
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Sputnik Music
Ultimately, Harry's House is festival music that is otherwise best enjoyed as perfectly enjoyable background noise in a coffee shop. What remains to be soon though, is if Harry's House has any sort of the staying power that Fine Line possessed. While obviously he was a well known artist before, that album is what launched Styles into superstardom. For better or worse, Harry's House likely does just enough to ensure he stays there.
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Los Angeles Times
Sexed up and sensitive, Harry Styles stakes his claim as the perfect boyfriend and pop star.
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Surg
WITH AN EASY CHARISMA AND SUAVE DISPOSITION, HARRY STYLES HAS GIVEN US AN INTROSPECTIVE RECORD THAT TAKES A MODERN DAY VISIT INTO 80S TECHNO-INFUSED POP-FUNK. THE ALBUM SWEEPS THROUGH VIGNETTES OF HIS LIFE AND GRAVITATES AROUND THE PULL OF DESIRE, GROWING UP AND WHAT HE CONSIDERS TO BE ‘HOME’.
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Riff Magazine
Harry Styles has yet to have a lapse in success. He’s conquered the charts and award shows. For his millions of adoring fans around the globe, Harry’s House it’s sure to be another success.
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musicOMH
A big deal on every level, his third solo album is a heavyweight pop release that feels understated and lightweight.
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The Irish Examiner
Harry's House is an unfussy and impressive laid-back epic .
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Clash Magazine
A body of work that will bring more comfort to longtime fans of his like a big fat hug around the middle, it’s packed with enough pop chops to rattle stadium floors, and dominate the kitchen radios of the casual listener for a while to come yet.
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Music Daily
Styles has shown fans his storytelling skills and aptitude for homey, intimate lyrics. His synth-pop, retro-feeling album has grooved right into listeners’ hearts.
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The Edge
Ultimately, Harry’s House is set to be the album release of the summer, and perhaps even of the next couple of years to come. It offers a delicately charmed sense of renaissance, which artistically accentuates both the negative and positive natural push and pulls that manifest within our lives – there is a song in it for everyone, and it is absolutely perfect, if you are sick of the fast-food quality of music often heard in the charts as of late.
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Edge Induced Cohesion
His inspiration by 70’s singer-songwriters appears sincere, he too is an artist in an insecure time trying to find in relationships the stability that is absent in the life of a pop star or in the world at large in a time of constant crisis. And despite that context, this album still appears to offer love and relationships as a shelter in the face of the storm. God knows we need some refuge from all this world inflicts on us.
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Gigwise
Despite it all, Harry Styles has delivered the soundtrack for a cinematic summer. As the final piano notes ring out from ‘Love Of My Life’, it’s like hearing the credits roll on something stuck between a romance movie and a reality show. As each track builds the score for a new scene or chapter in a story of several kinds of love, moving between big boisterous declarations into small moments, every second gains the same hefty romanticism. Rarely taking his foot off the pop pedal with track after track of good vibes only, could it fizzle out quickly? Perhaps, but for now; Harry’s saying this summer is for the lovers, so get yourself a new crush and press play.
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Nomisec
Styles is writing inside a reverie, blissfully insulated from life’s extremity.
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West Side Story
It’s obvious he’s grown into what he truly wants to create, and this album illustrates that confidence. As a Harry fan and a fan of music, I can confirm this album is worth a listen and is absolutely wonderful.
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In Review Online
For an artist whose music is usually so buoyed by his energetic performance, this latest album scans as an awfully subdued and generic affair. Too many listeners will be left feeling like a vexed parent: not mad because it’s so godawful — it isn’t — but disappointed because it isn’t more.
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The New Statesman
Harry Styles’ new album is a summery, Eighties-infused poolside record.
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The Mancunion
With moments to dance to and introspective tear-jerking moments, Harry presents the full range of emotions that we feel when we’re home. Love, joy, sadness, and yearning are abundant, wrapped up in a neat 1970s meets the 1980s funk package (and maybe a sequin jumpsuit). Inviting us into his house, Harry Styles reveals quiet kitchen moments, bedroom confessions and moments with the energy of a house party. It’s Styles at his most artistic.
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InStyle
But the whole album really is as good as one hopes a Harry Styles album will be. You finish it wanting to go another round or ten, drinking up as much magic as you can. There is no doubt, Harry is home and never sounded so good.
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Yorkshire Times
Harry's House may be a very different record to his two previous, it showcases an artist willing to change as he matures and unafraid to share his true self with his audience. A stunning return from one of the world's leading artists.
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Stereoboard
Harry Styles—like Star Wars TV shows and the Conservative Party—is essentially critic-proof at this point. The output could be a lot better and it could be a lot worse, and yet people still queue round the block to lend their support. Maybe Styles is representative of something other than his music, a kind of hipster British sexiness. Yes, maybe that’s it.
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Vinyl Chapters
It’s an extremely impressive blend between pop, indie, folk, R&B, and soul, and is easily the best album from iconic singer Harry Styles to date.
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it's all dead
Harry’s House is a misleading title. It leads us to believe he will finally let us in, finally give us a real, genuine taste of who he is and who he is becoming. But, like his past releases, he sings so little about himself that he seemingly lets us in the foyer only to say, “Thank you so much for coming, hope you can come again soon!” before ushering us out and away from getting too close to him.
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Cult Following
Pop charms come and go, Styles’ latest record clings to them dearly, but not for long. That ability to become an interesting pop artist is still out of reach for Styles, but he isn’t far off.
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Her Campus
This is Styles most creatively produced album to date, this is a light dust of an indie-pop album. Not every album has to be serious, a fun and carefree album with funky songs always has a place on my shelf.
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The Independent Florida Alligator
The international pop star makes his comeback with a summer album perfect for dancing, crying, or both.
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When Things Go Pop
If Harry’s House is an invitation into the Harry Styles’ headspace, what you get walking through the door is a stylish, disheveled house that screams loudly and unconvincingly, “This is fine.” It’s a relatable state of mind to everyone adjusting to the new, COVID-era normal. His struggles in this particular moment, what it means for him emotionally and romantically, make for a compelling and enjoyable listen. He shows us a lot on this album, but the mysteries and contradictions still remain. In fact, he’s even more fascinating, as the focus shifts to what he’ll reveal, or hide, next.
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The Needle Drop
There are some good and not so good times to be had at Harry's House.
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CigarJukebox
Even though this record has nothing as epic as Sign of the Times on it, Harry is not resting on his pop stardom and is still pushing himself. Sometimes these risks succeed and sometimes they leave you a bit flat, but it is exciting that he is trying new stuff out at all. This is a solid record with some great tracks, but more importantly, it has me really excited for his next record.
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Impct Journal
Harry Styles' third solo album, Harry's House, is as polished and stylish as you would expect from him. Styles shows, once again, that he is confident in crafting infectious hooks that are the center of many tracks. However, too often the lyricism betrays the solid production and was left with a mixed bag of boisterous pop songs at their best, but forgettable at their worst.
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Backseat Mafia
Styles solidifies his innovative artistry on his most authentic album to date.
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The Derrick
If the 13 tracks of Harry Styles’ third LP are the walls in which he lives, “Harry’s House” is a place of self-expression, happiness and healing.
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The Line of Best Fit
Harry’s House is a good album because it doesn’t care if you think so. It's not trying to appease the male critics chained to the altar of classic rock, and it isn’t showering you in glitter and hauling you onto the dance floor (even though you are still cordially invited). Harry’s house is open; whether you choose to come in is up to you.
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Slant Magazine
The album both sees Styles cementing his status as music’s premier sensitive, shy guy and growing comfortable enough within the pop idiom that he inhabits to push against it—but only ever so slightly. Styles may be a fashion trendsetter, but with Harry’s House, he continues trying on different styles in an effort to discover his own.
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Forge Press
From funk and disco to indie-pop, Harry’s House has perhaps not lived up to expectations, but delivers fans a broad spectrum of genres which will keep them on their toes, leaving them wondering what he will produce next.
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Far Out Magazine
I’ve already seen people call Harry’s House style over substance, but here’s the thing: style is half of the game. In fact, I think the more he leans into his own unique style, the better he’ll get, album after album. Regardless, this does indeed make things clear: Harry Styles is one who does his homework. And when he hits the nail on the head—which, again, is more often than not—boy, is it a dream come true.
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Nenroll
a stylish grip on the shelves of pop history.
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The Paw Print
Ultimately, this third album from the British music icon is no disappointment. There is something for everyone, as it explores various genres and themes throughout. I highly recommend Harry’s House for some easy listening and a mood boost.
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Tatler Asia
Harry's House is filled with a rollercoaster of emotions. It may be a rollercoaster but it is not bumpy at all. Everything is smooth and well-executed. I advise everyone who has not gotten the chance to listen to the album to listen to it now and see how the songs relate to you. The album is worth the forty-two minutes and I swear by it.
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Central Recorder
Six and a half years after Harry Styles took his final bow with One Direction, it’s possible to imagine a sizable portion of his audience has no memory of his time with the group that vaulted him to stardom. And at 28, no longer so young, he’s built himself an enviable solo career that “Harry’s House” goes a long way toward furthering.
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Evening Standard
Styles balances hit-making with sly experimentation - and just enough lyrical ambiguity to keep fans talking.
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Why Now
Of course, an album’s merits aren’t purely based just on its catchiness and there’s much to admire in Harry’s House. Styles proves himself to be an impressive vocalist but it’s hard not to wonder if he’s now more committed to his film career than music. Harry’s House is still an enjoyable album, even if there’s a nagging feeling that Styles could have pushed himself harder.
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Metro 50
An an artful soufflé so charming you might dissolve in its presence.
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The Independent
As ‘Harry’s House’ flings open the doors of its party garage, Styles navigates this confusing emotional territory with a funk shuffle and future soul panache worthy of the Purple One himself.
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Bloomberg
Throughout the record, Styles is confident, but not cocky, bringing self-awareness and ease into each song. “Harry’s House” finds him at his best — free, observant and content.
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SK Pop
With a vibe that can remind one of everyone from Tame Impala to Justin Timberlake (whose crossover success Harry seems to be emulating), the album makes ample use of Harry's harmonies on multiple tracks as well.
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Indiana Daily Student
Despite its imperfections, it’s still an undeniably fun album. Styles’ heartfelt charisma shines through on the musically decadent album, and allows listeners to leave “Harry’s House” feeling familiar with its writer.
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Dork
Surreal in places, but always sincere, ‘Harry’s House’ ventures through the everyday in all of its vivid technicolour glory. Because that’s what this album is for – it’s for every day. It’s for hairbrush karaoke while you do your make up. It’s for dancing while you cook, for singing while you clean, for late-night drives, and for lazy days in the garden. It’s a comforting voice for those moments when you need to break down and reset on your kitchen floor, and it’s a soundtrack for the sunshine while you walk to the shops or to the bus stop. These are songs for living and breathing, and thriving in the moment that you’re in. As Harry sings on the opening track, this is “music for whatever you want.”
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inews
Louche pop tunes with very little bite from former One Direction star.
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I-D
In the home he’s constructed for himself, one made up of memories, vulnerabilities, admissions and happiness, he seems to be at peace. What’s more, he’s cracked the front door open, and for the first time seems to be inviting us to look around and explore it ourselves. For now, Harry Styles is content in showing us what he feels comfortable sharing. There might still be bodies buried in the basement — perhaps, on album four, we’ll learn more.
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Marie Claire
Harry Styles Cements His Pop Rock Icon Status on ‘Harry’s House’.
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The Times
a masterclass in how to be a charming pop star.
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Trends Techno
Throughout the album, Styles’ singing is as eloquent as his lyrics, making the romance feel hopeful, at times a fragile dialogue between equals. It makes sense for Harry’s House to come out when the summer bar terrace season is in full swing. This is a record summer wind in Santa Ana.
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Antelope Valley Press
Overall, “Harry’s House” would be a great starting point for would-be fans. Styles’s vocal ability is visible, as well as his tendency to experiment with genres. Also, its a good snapshot of an artist transitioning and evolving his abilities as a singer/songwriter.
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