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Harry Styles is astudent of rock and roll, and it shows.
He keeps a legend as aclose friend.
He can quote specific passages of old David Bowie interviews.
His fashion sense is indebted to the glam-rock era.
On his second album, Styles picks up more lessons from his heroes.
Fine Linesees Styles realizing theres room in a classic-rock rubric for more than folk and blues sounds.
Watermelon Sugar distinguishes itself with tight vocal harmonies and a killer brass section toward the end.
Lights Up turns out to be even sturdier on the 50th play than the first handful couldve insinuated.
Adore You is one too many.
The album wanders off the beaten path in its second half, and its off to the races.
There are two threads here.
The song ends with a snippet of Rowes voice, in French.)
