Zeros

Harry Styles returned after four years away with his fourth full-length album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. , and at its core sits Coming Up Roses as the record’s emotional centerpiece. Its origins are unusual: the track began life as a scrapped Christmas-themed song before Styles abandoned the holiday trappings altogether, swapping festive ornaments for a waltz that belongs to no season . Fred Again.. , always the quiet showman , dropped the unreleased track into a London set in February 2026 — just weeks before the album’s March release — and the buzz that followed happened entirely on its own, with no promotion needed . Jules Buckley handled the arrangement; the band recorded at Abbey Road, RAK, and Hansa Studios. The finished piece sets a grand piano and a thirty-nine-piece orchestra against a formal waltz rhythm — a deliberate snub to the album’s industrial disco throb . Reviewers were swept away by the classical pivot. Roisin O’Connor went...