March 6, 2026 • 5 mins
Harry Styles has released his highly anticipated fourth album.
‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally’ follows on from his 2022 album ‘Harry’s House,’ which won Album of the Year at the 65th Grammy Awards in 2023.
It’s a notable departure from his previous works, with heavy use of synthesisers and electronic elements – inspired, Styles says, by the music and performances of LCD Soundsystem.
Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to share his thoughts on the album.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks at B.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
My Friends. My friend.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That's Harry Styles. The song is called American Girls. He's
got a brand new album called Kiss All the Time
Disco Occasionally, which is a confusing title. As I've said
on multiple occasions this morning, Chris Schultz has been listening
to the album as well as This morning. Good morning, sir,
go to Jack.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You're right, I don't like that title either.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What's the deal with the title? Do we know?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It probably relates to the album cover? Right, He's got
a disco ball on there. This this is an album
that has its roots in that kind of like New
York early two thousands love scene. You could hear it
in that song. That's a bit of a thumb. He
wants this to be experienced on a on a dance floor. Yeah.
He's a man of refined tastes. How he starts, you know,
(01:16):
he's not a man who I think who would walk
into a coffee shop and order a double shot. Latter,
he's probably getting like a turmric later, Okay, something like that.
And you see him in the in the widely pants
and the button down Cardigan's of therapy chic. I saw someone.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Describe, Yeah, that's a good term. Yeah, Hey, I mean
he's definitely he He looks like he's always kind of
determined to be thought of as an artist. Yeah, Like
he's not just kind of going like pop pit pop
up pop, pep poppet all the time. Totally, and he
puts a lot of thought into his kind of presentation
in every sense. But yeah, I mean I was interested
(01:53):
when I heard that he'd kind of been listening to
LCD sound System and he'd been going to a couple
of these shows and was seeking that this inspiration. I thought, oh,
this could be a bit of me.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
It is too like he's he has done what he
set out to do, which he's made this kind of
soft an album full of soft bangers. It is a
front to back listen. You do want to hear it
in full. It's an album experience. I think where the
criticism comes in is that he hasn't leaned into it
far enough. He hasn't fully immersed himself into that club
space almost. I feel like you can't help but compare
(02:26):
this to Bruno Mars album from last week, where it's
so much honoring What's Been and Bruno Mars's sort of
seventies pop, the Jackson five, that kind of thing that
it almost becomes Pastichiou doesn't add enough new things to
it to forge its own identity, and that's certainly the
case with this Harry Styles album. There are some big
songs on here. American Girl is the one everyone's listening
(02:48):
to right now. I love Aperture. The first single, Pop
has these beautiful horns in it, and there are some
choruses in here that would sound amazing at one of
those thirty Madison Square Gardens shows he's doing, or if
you're traveling to Australia, which you'll have to do to
see him over here. But there's also moments where his
voice it just doesn't quite fit, especially on some of
(03:08):
the verses. It just sounds a little awkward. It's doing
spoken word, almost like James Murphy does what else he
says sound system. There are these spoken word bits and
so it just doesn't quite go far enough to make
it original and new and special the whole way through.
But there are definitely moments here whether this does connect.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, I'm glad there are some moments and it's funny
you say that about the voice not quite fitting, because
that's what Libby said as well. She listened to it
and she was like, Oh, it's just like it's like
he's got a good voice, like his voice isn't quite
right for it or something.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's that tone. You know, We've spoken about these artists
like Lord and Lily Allen who are diving into their
personal lives and being super raw, and these songs feel
more like their stories. About his friends. He mentions a
lot of names American girls, that the hookahs, all my
friends are falling for American girls. Yeah, it's not about him, right,
And so I don't feel like I get to know
Harry Styles sure any better with this album.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That's not the kind of vulnerability that you might expect. Yeah, yeah,
I mean he does really noticeably kind of shift the
sound between his albums, like he's quite purposeful in doing that.
But I wonder is there he's probably beyond this being concern,
but is there a risk that he kind of ends up,
you know, isolating some of his fans or something or
not too He's seen he shows at Madison Square Garden Jack.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That he didn't even have the album out when he
did that. He sold them all out. I read the
story the other day. Yeah, I read a story about
people are renting out their couches for one hundred dollars
a night for fans who are coming to see those shows. Like,
that's how big he is when you've got these six
He's written six of the biggest pop songs in the
last ten years. They're just ubiquitous. And when you've got those,
(04:46):
you can it doesn't matter if new album connects or not.
You can build a stadium show around. I would love
to see how he works these songs into the mix,
by the way, I think some of them would really
connect in a stadium, super loud around fans who are
like all dancing and singing along. Yeah, we won't get
that chance, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah no, no, no, we won't have Okay, so what'd
you give it?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I give it three and a half starts?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Okay, all right here, that's a lad seven out of
ten if you prefer that way, all right for kiss
all the time? Just go occasionally by Harry Styles. So
we listened to a bit of aperture before we listen
to American girls will pick out pop. Maybe haven't a
bit of listen to that one and a couple of minutes.
Thank you so much, Chris, you've recovered from electric.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Are No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's good, honestly relieving to hear you say that, given
the number of shows you go to, that maybe you
do need a little bit of a rest, a week break.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I'm going to just lie on the couch and watch
some t there.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Good.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I'm pleased to hear it. Well, thank you very much.
You can hear more from Christal Course on his substick
boiler Room, a bit more Harry Styles in a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news Talks it'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks at B.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
My Friends. My friend.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That's Harry Styles. The song is called American Girls. He's
got a brand new album called Kiss All the Time
Disco Occasionally, which is a confusing title. As I've said
on multiple occasions this morning, Chris Schultz has been listening
to the album as well as This morning. Good morning, sir,
go to Jack.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You're right, I don't like that title either.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What's the deal with the title? Do we know?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It probably relates to the album cover? Right, He's got
a disco ball on there. This this is an album
that has its roots in that kind of like New
York early two thousands love scene. You could hear it
in that song. That's a bit of a thumb. He
wants this to be experienced on a on a dance floor. Yeah.
He's a man of refined tastes. How he starts, you know,
(01:16):
he's not a man who I think who would walk
into a coffee shop and order a double shot. Latter,
he's probably getting like a turmric later, Okay, something like that.
And you see him in the in the widely pants
and the button down Cardigan's of therapy chic. I saw someone.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Describe, Yeah, that's a good term. Yeah, Hey, I mean
he's definitely he He looks like he's always kind of
determined to be thought of as an artist. Yeah, Like
he's not just kind of going like pop pit pop
up pop, pep poppet all the time. Totally, and he
puts a lot of thought into his kind of presentation
in every sense. But yeah, I mean I was interested
(01:53):
when I heard that he'd kind of been listening to
LCD sound System and he'd been going to a couple
of these shows and was seeking that this inspiration. I thought, oh,
this could be a bit of me.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
It is too like he's he has done what he
set out to do, which he's made this kind of
soft an album full of soft bangers. It is a
front to back listen. You do want to hear it
in full. It's an album experience. I think where the
criticism comes in is that he hasn't leaned into it
far enough. He hasn't fully immersed himself into that club
space almost. I feel like you can't help but compare
(02:26):
this to Bruno Mars album from last week, where it's
so much honoring What's Been and Bruno Mars's sort of
seventies pop, the Jackson five, that kind of thing that
it almost becomes Pastichiou doesn't add enough new things to
it to forge its own identity, and that's certainly the
case with this Harry Styles album. There are some big
songs on here. American Girl is the one everyone's listening
(02:48):
to right now. I love Aperture. The first single, Pop
has these beautiful horns in it, and there are some
choruses in here that would sound amazing at one of
those thirty Madison Square Gardens shows he's doing, or if
you're traveling to Australia, which you'll have to do to
see him over here. But there's also moments where his
voice it just doesn't quite fit, especially on some of
(03:08):
the verses. It just sounds a little awkward. It's doing
spoken word, almost like James Murphy does what else he
says sound system. There are these spoken word bits and
so it just doesn't quite go far enough to make
it original and new and special the whole way through.
But there are definitely moments here whether this does connect.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, I'm glad there are some moments and it's funny
you say that about the voice not quite fitting, because
that's what Libby said as well. She listened to it
and she was like, Oh, it's just like it's like
he's got a good voice, like his voice isn't quite
right for it or something.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's that tone. You know, We've spoken about these artists
like Lord and Lily Allen who are diving into their
personal lives and being super raw, and these songs feel
more like their stories. About his friends. He mentions a
lot of names American girls, that the hookahs, all my
friends are falling for American girls. Yeah, it's not about him, right,
And so I don't feel like I get to know
Harry Styles sure any better with this album.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That's not the kind of vulnerability that you might expect. Yeah, yeah,
I mean he does really noticeably kind of shift the
sound between his albums, like he's quite purposeful in doing that.
But I wonder is there he's probably beyond this being concern,
but is there a risk that he kind of ends up,
you know, isolating some of his fans or something or
not too He's seen he shows at Madison Square Garden Jack.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That he didn't even have the album out when he
did that. He sold them all out. I read the
story the other day. Yeah, I read a story about
people are renting out their couches for one hundred dollars
a night for fans who are coming to see those shows. Like,
that's how big he is when you've got these six
He's written six of the biggest pop songs in the
last ten years. They're just ubiquitous. And when you've got those,
(04:46):
you can it doesn't matter if new album connects or not.
You can build a stadium show around. I would love
to see how he works these songs into the mix,
by the way, I think some of them would really
connect in a stadium, super loud around fans who are
like all dancing and singing along. Yeah, we won't get
that chance, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah no, no, no, we won't have Okay, so what'd
you give it?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I give it three and a half starts?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Okay, all right here, that's a lad seven out of
ten if you prefer that way, all right for kiss
all the time? Just go occasionally by Harry Styles. So
we listened to a bit of aperture before we listen
to American girls will pick out pop. Maybe haven't a
bit of listen to that one and a couple of minutes.
Thank you so much, Chris, you've recovered from electric.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Are No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's good, honestly relieving to hear you say that, given
the number of shows you go to, that maybe you
do need a little bit of a rest, a week break.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I'm going to just lie on the couch and watch
some t there.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Good.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I'm pleased to hear it. Well, thank you very much.
You can hear more from Christal Course on his substick
boiler Room, a bit more Harry Styles in a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to news Talks it'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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