“I’ve been Harry; it’s been an absolute pleasure. Thank you for having me back.” The ever charming Harry Styles, Grammy winner and ex-One Direction-er, road tests his new album and plays a clutch of choice hits in One Night in Manchester, a standalone Netflix concert special shot at Co-Op Live Arena, and the cryptic worldwide messages that heralded the arrival of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, his grammatically cheeky fourth studio album, resurface as he stands in the wings. Styles made the thing, he says in a brief voiceover, “at a pivotal moment in my life.” It’s been three years since his last record and tour. It’s time to show the new thing off. Harry Styles checks his David Bowie-ish look in the mirror. “We belong together…”
The Gist: The quavery keyboard pulse of “Aperture,” the Kiss All the Time opener, surges in the arena, and Harry Styles’ “Someone
...Keep reading this article on DECIDER.
