Harry Styles Is the Sound of Spring

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Every spring, Wesley Morris finds himself searching for music that captures the light and breezy feeling that comes with the end of winter. This year, there’s an obvious soundtrack to the season: Harry Styles’s new album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.” “These songs are like 12 beautiful little flowers,” Wesley says. “They’re not supposed to last forever. They’re just supposed to last for the season. And six weeks, that is a perfect amount of time for these songs to just blossom in your ears.” Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Wesley, and, you know, sometimes I come to work and I just have something I really, I just want to think my way through.
0:10.5	And we've been taking that impulse of mine and making these short videos out of them.
0:16.6	I did one on heated rivalry.
0:18.8	I did one on Lil Young winning that Grammy that time.
0:21.6	I did one last week on Love Story.
0:24.0	And, you know, they're short, and I don't have a guest to do it.
0:27.7	I just sort of, like, make a video.
0:30.3	They all live on YouTube, and you should go there and watch them and subscribe.
0:36.4	But today, I'm just going to put one here
0:39.0	with you. And I'll
0:41.4	see you soon.
0:46.1	I'm Wesley Morris
0:47.5	and
0:48.3	it's spring.
0:53.1	And, you know, one of the things as a person who rides is bike a lot of places around New York City.
1:00.2	That's so great about spring is there's this moment that happens where you get on your bike for the first time.
1:06.3	Even though you've been riding in the abject cold and the abject heat, there's something about this,
1:11.7	like, middle temperature zone where it's like, you just feel differently alive. And the other
1:20.5	day, I was on my bike and I was listening to an album that sounded exactly like the season I wanted to feel in my soul.
1:34.8	Harry Stiles' fourth album?
1:37.1	Kiss all the time, disco occasionally, and the first song on the album is called Aperture, which, you know, this is a preview, the sound of this song.
1:49.8	It's just like a very warm keyboard note and underneath it.
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