It’s been a long four years but Harry is back and excited to be sharing new music with the world. He told the team: ‘It feels really exciting [to be back]. It got to a point where I’d finished the album, I was living with it for a while and it was like OK the music’s ready, I feel really excited about it, I’m excited to play it to people and that felt like a really good reason for the timing to be right for putting it out.’
The trio quizzed him on why he chose Aperture as the first single from the new album… ‘For me the making of the whole album was a really important time in my life. Taking a big step away from everything, I just learnt a lot about myself and the way that I wanted to work and as we were discovering things in the studio and things were happening I just started realising that when I would play it to people this is always the first song I would play. It became track one on the album because that’s what I wanted to set the tone with. It felt like this is what I want people to hear first to set the stage for it.
And talking about setting the stage – Harry was asked did he really ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.’ ‘It’s a life mantra! It’s unhealthy to disco all the time so loving and moving through your life with love and then taking a break every now and again to have some fun is a really good way to approach your life. And I feel like that’s what I did for the last couple of years and it led to positive changes in my life so… You can probably stop [kissing] to eat and stuff – definitely an extended lunch break – and then right back to it… I spent a lot of time with Italians the last year or so and they’re kissing all the time so… it’s just art imitating life.’
Before he left Harry also shared some secrets about the tour planned for later this year… ‘The tour is just about having fun together and being together. The feeling of me up here and you guys down there is a lot of what this album has been about trying to remove I think. I want that to be the feeling with the tour as well. I want it to feel like I’m also here dancing with you, I’m here for the same thing that you’re here for…
