Harry Styles review: Netflix concert a communal love-in with big pop moments

As 2026’s first big pop moment, everything around Harry Styles’ new album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally feels suitably blockbuster. At last weekend’s Brit awards Styles premiered the lead single Aperture with a troupe of dancers and an expensive-sounding choir, while Friday’s “one night only” de facto album launch party takes place in a 20,000 capacity arena.

The show is being recorded for posterity by Netflix, and phones are to be placed in a recyclable bag that prevents the use of recording equipment — a nice way to stay inside the moment, and chiefly a fail-safe against spoiling the forthcoming TV special. Perhaps the least blockbuster-y element is the music itself: lyrically vague, melodically hazy and strangely devoid of inescapable hooks à la Adore You or As It Was.

Fans have nicknamed the new album “Kissco”, and it sounds too weak on record to carry the blockbuster tag. Live, stripped of the album’s hermetically sealed gloss, Styles wrestles the songs into more interesting shapes.

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