Harry Styles drops a surprise Berlin studio session video, performing three tracks from his No. 1 album ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’
Harry Styles has spent 2026 operating at a level of sustained cultural momentum that most artists take entire careers to approach. On Monday (April 20), with no prior announcement, he dropped “Harry Live From Funkhaus,” a 13-minute studio session video filmed at Funkhaus, the legendary East Berlin audio complex, in which he performs stripped-back versions of three tracks from his fourth studio album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. Directed by Stella Blackmon, the release lands less than two months after the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, continuing a run of surprise content drops that have kept his fanbase in a state of sustained anticipation ahead of the Together, Together world tour.
The video is a quiet masterclass in controlled intimacy. It opens with wintry footage of Berlin streets, a piano drifting underneath, before cutting to the warmth of the Funkhaus studio where Styles and his ensemble settle in to work. He arrives in a yellow sweatshirt printed with “KUSS” on the front and “DISKO” on the back, the German translations of his album’s title, a detail that feels less like a costume choice and more like a statement of intent. Before any recording begins, Styles is already cracking jokes with his conductor. “There’s been another crime, another crime on page three,” he says, loosening the room before the takes begin.
Three Songs, One Piano, No Pretense
The set opens with “Season 2 Weight Loss,” the album’s seventh track, now rebuilt around a chamber orchestra, a drummer, and a pianist. What is a synth-driven, vaguely 8-bit construction on the record becomes something warmer and more expansive in the Funkhaus arrangement, with pizzicato strings and live percussion giving the song a new emotional dimension. Styles stands at the microphone with both hands on his headphones, mixing his own audio in real time, a detail that signals how closely he controls the texture of his own sound.
For “Paint By Numbers,” Styles moves to the piano, announcing it as “take 73” into his mic. Strings and a guitarist handling backing vocals carry the second song through the same emotional geography as the album version, but with a directness that the studio production softens. When they finish, one of his instrumentalists says simply, “That felt great, I love that one.” The moment stays in the cut. It should.
The session closes with “Coming Up Roses,” and the full ensemble reconvenes around Styles at the piano. An electric bassist joins the string players and the first pianist as the arrangement gradually builds, bows replacing pizzicato, the dynamics expanding until the room is fully alive. The video closes on a single card: “DAS ENDE.”
The Commercial and Cultural Stakes
The Funkhaus release is not happening in a vacuum. Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally., recorded across London, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles with longtime collaborators Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in March and drew immediate fan comparisons to a zero-skip record. Its lead single “Aperture” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has remained on the chart for 11 consecutive weeks. All three songs featured in the Funkhaus session have also charted on the Hot 100, a fact that underlines just how thoroughly Styles’ fourth album has penetrated the mainstream.
With the Together, Together tour opening May 16 at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena before a 30-night residency at Madison Square Garden, a run at Wembley Stadium, and dates across São Paulo, Mexico City, Melbourne, and Sydney, the Funkhaus video reads as both a gift to fans and a deliberate act of pre-tour world-building. When Styles told Capital FM earlier this year that returning with new music had left him “showered with love,” this is the kind of content that earns that response.
