Harry Styles' new album is both adventurous and puzzling. Is that good?

Harry Styles is back with his first album in four years and it will surprise some fans. Here's a rundown of “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.\

It was evident from the first strains of “Aperture” that Harry Styles’ new album would not be the same as it was.

Where his Grammy-winning “Harry’s House” danced with taut melodies, inescapable hooks and blasts of brass (we still love you, “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”), Styles’ fourth solo album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” is as quirky and brow-furrowing as its title.

That isn’t a criticism, just the acknowledgement that Styles’ first release in four years, out March 6, takes a hard turn into electronic music meshed with Dark Wave ‘80s influences.

Breezy pop, this is not. But it is a showcase for an artist unafraid to stretch and plunge into the deep end.

The thumping “Aperture” arrived as a slow-burn song that already sounded like a remix, yet its unconventionality didn’t prevent it from racing to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in February (along with the Global 200, Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales chart).