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Three years and a pandemic between releases, Niall Horan turns the heartbreak around on his vibrant, matured The Show. His third full-length, the quick ten-track burst finds the former One Directioner in a period of positive growth, leaving his twenties behind and grounding himself in a more comfortable space where he can play with genres and have some fun. The mood is set on the irresistible opener "Heaven," a bright, life-affirming anthem that nods to the Beach Boys with the repeated "God only knows" and that group's trademark sunny vocal harmonies. Meanwhile, "Meltdown" and "Save My Life" amp up the energy with breezy choruses and '80s pop/rock vibrancy that's not too far off from his former bandmates Harry Styles' and Louis Tomlinson's contemporaneous output. Digging in deeper, he contemplates the passage of time and its effects on love on the tender "Never Grow Up" and dips into Tame Impala psych-groove on "If You Leave Me." Later, he slows things down with the acoustic guitar-and-harmonica "You Could Start a Cult," a sweet ode to a love that could sway the masses, and the piano-and-strings ballad "Science." The centerpiece title track is a sweeping showcase that builds atop swelling, orchestral drama, reaching a grand apex on the bridge, where Horan hits the most shiver-inducing vocal heights yet heard on one of his solo efforts. With each subsequent album, Horan just gets better and better. The Show is his most immediate and engaging set to date, endlessly listenable and full of heart and charm.
© Neil Z. Yeung /TiVo
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Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - Joel Little, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Piano, Programmer, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Piano, Programmer, Bass, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, DrumKit - Spike Stent, MixingEngineer - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Tobias Jesso Jr., ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Matt Wolach, MixingSecondEngineer - Jesse Munsat, Engineer - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Julian Bunetta, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Programmer, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist, MixingEngineer, BackgroundVocalist, DrumKit - Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - Joel Little, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Caroline Ailin, ComposerLyricist - Jeff Gunnell, Engineer - Mike Sabath, CoProducer - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Michael Sabath, Bass, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - Joel Little, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, Bass, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, DrumKit - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Programmer, Bass, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, DrumKit - Spike Stent, MixingEngineer - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Amy Allen, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Matt Wolach, MixingSecondEngineer - Jesse Munsat, Engineer - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Julian Bunetta, Producer, Engineer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, DrumKit - Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - Joel Little, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, Synthesizer, BackgroundVocalist - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Organ, Piano, Programmer, Bass, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Spike Stent, MixingEngineer - Shane McAnally, ComposerLyricist - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jeff Gunnell, Engineer - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Matt Wolach, MixingSecondEngineer - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Jamie Scott, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, VocalProducer - Sam de Jong, DrumKit - Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - Joel Little, Producer, Engineer, Piano, Programmer, Synthesizer - Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, Violin, StringsDirector - Spike Stent, MixingEngineer - James Bush, Cello - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Mike Needle, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Dan Bryer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Martin Hannah, RecordingEngineer - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Peau Halapua, Violin - Matt Wolach, MixingSecondEngineer - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Joe Harrop, Viola - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Julian Bunetta, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - Joel Little, Producer, Engineer, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, ComposerLyricist, MixingEngineer - Niall Horan, Piano, Harmonica, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Mark Landon, ComposerLyricist - Jeff Gunnell, Engineer - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Ruel Vincent Van Dijk, ComposerLyricist - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Piano, Programmer, Bass, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, DrumKit - Spike Stent, MixingEngineer - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Leon Silva, Saxophone - Sean Erick, Flugelhorn, Trumpet - Jeff Gunnell, Engineer - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Amy Allen, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Matt Wolach, MixingSecondEngineer - Kevin Williams, Jr., Flute, Tuba - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Programmer, Bass, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, DrumKit - Jacob Kasher Hindlin, ComposerLyricist - Spike Stent, MixingEngineer - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Jeff Gunnell, Engineer - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Matt Wolach, MixingSecondEngineer - Matt Zara, Guitar, Programmer, Synthesizer, AdditionalProducer - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Jamie Scott, Piano, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, VocalProducer - Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - Joel Little, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, Synthesizer - Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, Violin, StringsDirector - Spike Stent, MixingEngineer - James Bush, Cello - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Mike Needle, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Dan Bryer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Peau Halapua, Violin - Matt Wolach, MixingSecondEngineer - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Joe Harrop, Viola - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Ben Kohn, ComposerLyricist - Sam de Jong, DrumKit - Tom Barnes, ComposerLyricist - Peter Kelleher, ComposerLyricist - Nathan Dantzler, MasteringEngineer - Joel Little, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Piano, Programmer, Bass, Synthesizer - James Napier, ComposerLyricist - John Ryan, Guitar, AdditionalProducer - Spike Stent, MixingEngineer - TMS, AdditionalProducer - Niall Horan, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Philip Plested, ComposerLyricist - Elizabeth Isik, AAndRAdministrator - Matt Wolach, MixingSecondEngineer - Harrison Tate, MasteringSecondEngineer - Amanda Samii, A&R - Georgia Bundschu, AAndRCoordinator
℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
Album review
Three years and a pandemic between releases, Niall Horan turns the heartbreak around on his vibrant, matured The Show. His third full-length, the quick ten-track burst finds the former One Directioner in a period of positive growth, leaving his twenties behind and grounding himself in a more comfortable space where he can play with genres and have some fun. The mood is set on the irresistible opener "Heaven," a bright, life-affirming anthem that nods to the Beach Boys with the repeated "God only knows" and that group's trademark sunny vocal harmonies. Meanwhile, "Meltdown" and "Save My Life" amp up the energy with breezy choruses and '80s pop/rock vibrancy that's not too far off from his former bandmates Harry Styles' and Louis Tomlinson's contemporaneous output. Digging in deeper, he contemplates the passage of time and its effects on love on the tender "Never Grow Up" and dips into Tame Impala psych-groove on "If You Leave Me." Later, he slows things down with the acoustic guitar-and-harmonica "You Could Start a Cult," a sweet ode to a love that could sway the masses, and the piano-and-strings ballad "Science." The centerpiece title track is a sweeping showcase that builds atop swelling, orchestral drama, reaching a grand apex on the bridge, where Horan hits the most shiver-inducing vocal heights yet heard on one of his solo efforts. With each subsequent album, Horan just gets better and better. The Show is his most immediate and engaging set to date, endlessly listenable and full of heart and charm.
© Neil Z. Yeung /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:30:36
- Main artists: Niall Horan
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan ℗ 2023 Neon Haze Music Ltd. and Niall Horan
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