“[It] shows off Styles’s unorthodox mixture of influences,
their threatening edges sanded down. Sometimes it sounds like what would have
happened if Freddie Mercury went to Laurel Canyon and wrote a song with A-ha.
Other times, it’s a mild soft-rock album that nudges you hopefully with its
nose, so eager to please it feels as if a golden retriever made it.”
An extremely well-written review by the Post’s Allison
Stewart – well worth reading even if you don’t care about (or have never heard
of) Mr. Styles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/05/23/harry-styles-harrys-house-album-review/
In the second week of May, 1961, Ricky Nelson had both an A and B side of the same single in the Top Ten.
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