After stepping back from the spotlight following Harry’s House (2022), Harry Styles has spoken candidly about the need to “fall in love with music all over again.” That recalibration is audible in Aperture, the first glimpse of his forthcoming album Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally, a track that signals not just a return, but a subtle rerouting.

Reviewing the single for NME, Rhian Daly awarded it four stars, noting how far it moves from the loosely retro pop-rock of Harry’s House or the stadium-sized emotion of Sign of the Times. Instead, Styles leans into electronic territory: a lightly thumping, euphoric pulse animated by flickers of house piano, jittery distortion and elongated, droning chords. Anchored by his resonant chorus, “We belong together”, the song feels like Styles brushing up against the lineage of dance-floor introspection, somewhere not far from LCD Soundsystem, but unmistakably his own.

The phrase We Belong Together has become the connective thread of this new era. First appearing on posters pasted across cities worldwide, it was followed by an intimate, lo-fi WhatsApp voice note sent directly to fans, Styles softly singing the line as if testing it in the air, letting it gather meaning through repetition and proximity. It’s a gesture that collapses scale: global pop star, private transmission.

That sense of closeness, paradoxically, underpins the ambition of his newly announced Together, Together tour. In support of Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally, Styles will stage a series of residencies across seven major cities. The tour includes six nights at London’s Wembley Stadium, a remarkable 30-date run at New York’s Madison Square Garden, and extended stays in Amsterdam, São Paulo, Mexico City, Melbourne and Sydney. Running from May through December, the 50-date schedule promises to be interesting.

Joining him along the way is a genre-spanning roster, Robyn, Shania Twain, Jamie xx, Jorja Smith, Fousheé, Skye Newman and Fcukers, further underlining a project rooted in collaborations.