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Harry Styles loses himself to dance

The dance floor is where Harry Styles does his therapy, and this album is the session notes. Four years after Harry's House, Styles returns with Kiss All the Time, Disco Occasionally, a record built from minimal ingredients: live drums, Moog bass, nylon guitar, and synth sequences that stretch across entire songs without a drop in sight. This is Styles' anti-drop album. Where classic disco era dance celebrated collective joy, Styles uses the dance floor as a stage for self-examination.

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Songs discussed:

  • Harry Styles – "Aperture"
  • Ice Spice – "In Ha Mood"
  • PinkPantheress – "Boy's a Liar"
  • Zara Larsson – "Midnight Sun"
  • LCD Soundsystem – "Dance Yrself Clean"
  • LCD Soundsystem – "Someone Great"
  • LCD Soundsystem – "Oh Baby"
  • Harry Styles – "Pop"
  • Harry Styles – "Sign of the Times"
  • David Bowie – "Space Oddity"
  • Elton John – "Rocket Man"
  • Harry Styles – "Dance No More"
  • Chic – "Good Times"
  • Stevie Nicks – "Edge of Seventeen"
  • Simon & Garfunkel – "Keep the Customer Satisfied"
  • Paul Simon – "You Can Call Me Al"
  • Harry Styles – "Carla's Song"
  • Paul Simon – "Kathy's Song"
  • Simon & Garfunkel – "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
  • Harry Styles – "Are You Listening Yet?"
  • DJO – "Basic Being Basic"
  • Harry Styles – "Season Two, Weight Loss"
  • Sons of Kemet – "Play Mas"
  • Harry Styles – "Coming Up Roses"
  • Harry Styles – "American Girls"
  • LCD Soundsystem – "American Scum"
  • LCD Soundsystem – "Drunk Girls"
  • Harry Styles – "As It Was"

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