Whether you chose to listen to them or not, the music of One Direction likely infiltrated your childhood somehow. Harry Styles’s return feels somewhat like a salve — a touch of the nostalgia the world would have gotten from a One Direction reunion. In honor of Liam Payne and Styles’s announcement, I’ve decided to dedicate this week’s Test Spin to One Direction’s 2014 record FOUR. “Ready to Run” reads more like a OneRepublic song than a One Direction one, but it’s fun and cheerful regardless. Test Spins is a fortnightly throwback column reviewing and recommending classic and underrated albums from the past.

Source: Daily Sun January 23, 2026 14:46 UTC