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Just when we needed a little more light in our lives, Harry Styles returned with his first new music since Harry's House in 2022. And “Aperture,” his first single from the upcoming Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, certainly lets in the light (see what I did there?). It turns out, Styles was joined on the song by long-time collaborator, Ellie Rowsell from the band Wolf Alice – although you'll have to listen pretty closely to hear her. Rowsell is credited on the track as background vocals.
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And yes, it does just make sense.
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This marks the first time that Harry Styles and Rowsell have appeared on a track together. However, back in 2022, Wolf Alice toured with Styles during the European leg of “Love On Tour.” During the final show, Rowsell even joined him onstage for a cover of Wolf Alice's “No Hard Feelings.”
And, yes, the pair obviously love working together. “I loved being on stage with Harry and his band," Rowsell said to Rolling Stone after touring with him.
Styles' upcoming album is due to drop on 6 March with a tour to follow. It will be his first in over three years. “I think for me, when I finished the last tour, it was quite long, and I think I got to the end of it, and I felt like before I make another album, I really need a strong why of why I would be making another album,” he explained to NME of the big gap.
“The answer can’t just be ‘well, I’ve finished the tour so now I’m going to make another album, and then after that I do this, and then I put it out, and then I do another tour’,” Styles went on. “I think a lot of it for me was kind of paying a bit more attention to some of the other corners of my life that when I’ve been touring for long stretches, I haven’t always given that much attention to."
Launch time is 2 pm.
As for his first single, Styles explained that “Aperture” was largely inspired “just from going out.”
“I spent a lot of time in Berlin last year and I was meeting a lot of fun and interesting people and hearing a lot of different kinds of music,” he told Capital FM's Jordan North. "I kind of just started feeling how that was influencing the music I was making. I was just loving what I felt like it would allow me to do on stage and just be really immersed in the music.”
And we are so ready to immerse ourselves in his album the second it comes out!
