'Harry's House' review: Harry Styles is cocky and confident in latest album

Harry Styles performing onstage during the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards at Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles in 2021. – Tribune News Service

If the 13 tracks of Harry Styles’ third LP are the walls in which he lives, Harry’s House is a place of self-expression, happiness and healing. From the jubilant, funky Cinema, to the meandering cruiser Keep Driving, Styles shows a breadth of style that matches the album’s emotional range.

Styles set the tone for the album with his single As It Was. The up-tempo track sounds carefree at first listen, but the lyrics reveal a heavier premise. It’s a song that thematically explores the fear and pain associated with accepting that you must let something, or someone, go. It’s a single that teases Styles’ comfort with vulnerability - something that he displays countless times on the record.