Daylight

The fifth track on 'Harry's House' meanders through obsession on fairytale-romance-ready refrains, complete with backing vocals that feel lifted from a Disney princess sigh. Styles unveiled the song a day before its release at the Citi Concert Series for the TODAY show. The lyrics take on a stream-of-consciousness quality, moving from rooftops to aeroplanes to bicycles, from nosebleeds to horoscopes to cocaine in the kitchen, all bound together by the bluebird-and-honey refrain that returns like a devotional mantra.

The emotional register is fixation rendered in domestic detail. 'You never listen, I hope you're missing me by now,' Styles sings, the longing pitched somewhere between ache and compulsion. The chorus turns daylight itself into the antagonist, a force that interrupts the pull of someone who hasn't got time for him right now. It's a song about calling at all times, about refusing sleep, about the kind of devotion that feels both tender and slightly unhinged.

A Dork five-star record, 'Harry's House' explores love in all of its aching wonder, and 'Daylight' sits near its emotional core. Surreal in places but always sincere, it ventures through the everyday in vivid technicolour, a soundtrack for late-night drives and the moments when you need to break down and reset on your kitchen floor.