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Harry Styles ' third record  Harry's House   grabs listeners with a funky '70s-Jazz-influenced track, " Music for a Sushi Restaurant ." The avant-garde production, scatting, horns, and minimal (though somewhat complexly layered in meaning) lyrics are simultaneously the most and least pop way to start a record.  Harry's House  is a record that jumps all over the place stylistically track to track, yet "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" is a bombastic-themed track--horns, '70s-inspired tracks--to an otherwise laidback singer. But the imagery of a girl so hot you could fry an egg on her?  What a bizarre way to open an album, and possibly a little unappetizing. MUSIC FOR A SUSHI RESTAURANT, MUSIC FOR WHATEVER YOU WANT.   Musicologist   Nate Sloan   and songwriter   Charlie Harding   talked about the horn themes on   Harry's House  on their podcast   Switched on Pop .  The duo made the connection between Styles' recent inclusion of horns on the re

Last year, Harry Styles released his third album, Harry's House . Last month, I talked about the former One Direction 's second album, his musical dark horse Fine Line . I've listened to this album a lot--or at least started listening to it a lot--in hopes that it will make me fall in love with it similar to how I fell in love with Fine Line. While I have started to pick up on the musical nuance in this record, I still think that Fine Line is superior. But here's a house for the tracks that I talk about on this record. I’ll furnish the house with more information as it is later!   1. " Music for a Sushi Restaurant " kicks the album off in the best way possible. I've heard so many music snobs slam this song as a soundtrack to shopping at Target , and that's partially true. It's "music for whatever you want." The somewhat shallow lyrics about the speaker's oral fixations set a tone for the album's lyrical depth. Things don't g

Today we finally do it. We look at Harry Styles ' Fine Line track by track. So far, I've published three posts about Styles' 2019 record. This record set expectations high for last year's Harry's House , which has a higher Meta Critic rating but has also been criticized for its bi-polar nature between the beginning and ending of the record. I think that the dynamics on Fine Line are more evenly dispersed. To compare the two albums, I was surprised by the catchiness  and musicality of Fine Line, beginning my listening experience with Styles both unaware of his previous album and One Direction career and heavily biased against the former boy band singer--I've come around to both his eponymous record and One Direction career. Listening to  Harry's House, however, I brought my expectation from listening to Fine Line , but felt disappointed by the derivative sounds that the artist often used in One Direction. Keeping that in mind, let's appreciate Fine Li

  Harry's House ,  the third full length record from   Harry Styles , was one of the most anticipated records of the year, and it dropped late last month. In an   interview   with   Zane Lowe , Styles talked about how the writing process for his third record was a continuation from his writing process for   Fine Line.   Styles' former record had been a surprising take on psychedelic pop akin to the '60s and '70s, and listeners and critics wondered what he would offer on his third record. It turns out that, so far,   Harry's House  holds a high  Meta-critic rating   than either his   self-titled debut   or   Fine Line   with a score of 83%. LEAVE AMERICA, TWO KIDS FOLLOW HER.  The similarity between  Fine Line  and  Harry's House ,  though, can't be pointed out from the lead single, " As It Was ," alone, though. Many critics have pointed out the similarity between "As It Was" and  A-Ha 's " Take On Me "; often with the argume

I've written a lot about Harry Styles since I discovered his talent on " Sunflower, Vol. 6 " last August. Whereas Fine Line was kind of a sleeper hit record for me I was expecting a lot from Harry's House . In some ways, the record met my expectations, creating an old-time vibe that borrows from obscure Japanese jazz records and seventies singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell who even wrote a song titled " Harry's House / Centerpiece " on her 1975 record The Hissing of Summer Lawns .  In other ways, the record feels a bit haphazard, blending the '80s sound of " As It Was " with '70s folk and disco. There's certainly a mood of the record, but it's not always the mood I'm in. THERE'S A HAZE ON THE HORIZON, BABE. . Take for example the second track and second single " Late Night Talking ." On the album, " Music for a Sushi Restaurant " sets up a tangy, tasty concoction of sounds. Lyrically, it's &

  Harry Styles ' third record Harry's House  grabs listeners with a funky '70s-Jazz-influenced track, " Music for a Sushi Restaurant ." The avant-garde production, scatting, horns, and minimal (though somewhat complexly layered in meaning) lyrics are simultaneously the most and least pop way to start a record. Harry's House is a record that jumps all over the place stylistically track to track, yet "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" is a bombastic-themed track--horns, '70s-inspired tracks--to an otherwise laidback singer. But the imagery of a girl so hot you could fry an egg on her? What a bizarre way to open an album, and possibly a little unappetizing, but I have been suffering from diarrhea for two days and everything I eat quickly leaves my body.  MUSIC FOR A SUSHI RESTAURANT, MUSIC FOR WHATEVER YOU WANT. Last month, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding talked about the horn themes on Harry's House on their podcast Switche

Harry's House ,  the third full length record from Harry Styles , was one of the most anticipated records of the year, and it dropped late last month. In an interview with Zane Lowe , Styles talked about how the writing process for his third record was a continuation from his writing process for Fine Line.   Styles' former record had been a surprising take on psychedelic pop akin to the '60s and '70s, and listeners and critics wondered what he would offer on his third record. It turns out that, so far, Harry's House holds a high  Meta-critic rating than either his self-titled debut or Fine Line with a score of 83%. LEAVE AMERICA, TWO KIDS FOLLOW HER.  The similarity between Fine Line and Harry's House ,  though, can't be pointed out from the lead single, " As It Was ," alone, though. Many critics have pointed out the similarity between "As It Was" and A-Ha 's " Take On Me "; often with the argument that Styles' "