Harry Styles: Harry's House (180g, with postcard) [COLUMBIA]

Why you'll love it

Harry's House debuted at No. 1 in the US and the UK, "As It Was" topped both singles charts, and the album won the Grammy for Album of the Year. This edition is on 180g vinyl with a postcard.

This edition

• 180g vinyl
• Includes a postcard
• Columbia pressing

About the album

Harry Styles' records are a lot like Harry Styles, the pop star: charming, clever, a little bit mysterious and deeper than they appear at first blush. Never has this been more apparent than on Harry's House. The pop album to beat in 2022 (after Taylor Swift's Midnights, of course), Styles's third solo outing is far better than it needs to be. Taking musical cues from new wave and Japanese city pop, it's a much more layered and playful listen than your average chart fodder, while Harry himself demonstrates here that he's growing into a remarkably literate and nuanced lyricist as he strides further and further away from his boy-band origins.

The guest list, too, signals a parting of ways with pure pop, to some extent; there are no A-list MCs dropping cameo verses here and there, but you do find John Mayer and Ben Harper contributing guitar to a couple of tracks and jazz bassist sans pareil Pino Palladino holding down the low end on "Little Freak" and "Daydreaming." Classy record, this one. And whatever you think of the Grammy Awards, Harry's House was a refreshingly un-hateable choice for Album of the Year at the 2023 ceremony.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Columbia, first out in 2022.