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This album gets four stars from me, because I like it, but I don’t think it’s quite Kermit level. 

Just over a month ago Harry Styles dropped his (then) latest song, “As It Was,” and I was dutifully impressed. So impressed in fact, that I promised a review of the whole album, and here it is. I’m not a Harry Styles super fan, but I also don’t have anything against him, so I feel that this will be a pretty fair review. So here, in the order of the track list, is my review of Harry’s House. 

Music For a Sushi Restaurant: 

This sounds like the seventies? Eighties? Ant Farm? Feel like this one might be played during a particularly intense shopping montage (wonderful thing), but I also feel like that might go for all of them. It’s a little bit different, and I like that about it. (Ed note: this one is for sure one of my favorites, and I cannot really explain why.) 

Late Night Talking: 

This is definitely dance music, I mean I think we all already knew it’s a continual dance party at Harry’s House. It will now be a continual dance party at my house too. 

Grape juice: 

Starts with Harry(?) whispering. Super disarming. I like this one though, and I especially like the lyric “There’s never been someone who’s so perfect for me,” I really want to know who is the match to Harry Styles. I would also like to know, though, why he is talking about 1982.., he wasn’t born yet. (Ed note: I have listened to this one several more times, and I think I’m announcing it as my official first favorite from the album drop.)

As It Was:

I have been listening to this one since it dropped, and surprisingly liked it very much. I did a whole other review on it. Long story short though, Watermelon sugar destroyed what feeble faith I had in Harry, and this song restored it. I can see why he would drop this one first, and I think it is very representative of what the album is as a whole. 

Daylight: 

This one isn’t my favorite so far, but songs tend to grow on me. I don’t think that this album is the most revolutionary, but I’m not sure that is what Harry was going for. 

Little Freak: 

I don’t mind this one, I like the melody of the verses. 

Matilda: 

I have very conflicted feelings about songs that include names so obviously, but I think it’s done pretty properly here. It’s very sad girl indie esque, and I don’t hate it. 

Cinema: 

Once again, very seventies dance music. I think I would appreciate it if someone put it on, but it’s not something I would listen to by myself. 

Daydreaming: 

I don’t think I will ever listen to this again, but I would dance to it. I think that every album should have songs that go undiscovered until you realize that there are more songs in an album than are played on the radio (key moment for me), and you kind of like it. That’s what this is. All of these songs should be played in bars with disco balls. 

Keep Driving:

For whatever reason I had high hopes for this one. I think that indie(ish) pop music that has “car” in the title is always golden. I wasn’t disappointed, this one is one of my favorites, and I will probably listen to it again in the following weeks. 

Satellite:

This blends right into the rest of the album to me, but I do like it. Some albums are all bad, but I think that this one is all good, just maybe not what I would listen to on my own. 

Boyfriends:

This one had beautiful harmonies, and I like the acoustic instrumentals. It’s one of the more slow songs of the album; I still think it’s danceable, just in a more soft, spinny kind of way. 

Love Of My Life:

I think that the way this one is produced is really interesting. There’s a lot of… techno sounds(?), and other than that it’s really simple. This one gets stuck in my head, which is annoying, but oh well, that’s probably the only way that I’ll hear it in the near future. 

Truly this album is exactly what I thought it was going to be. I think that the album art is particularly representative, and I like all of it. Do I love it? Only time will tell, but I’m thinking that at least a couple of these songs will be keepers. I think that this album is less of a journey, and more of an environment, but that’s just up to personal preference. I do want to say, after having these songs to listen to for the past few days, I have grown to like them a lot more than I initially did.