From Out of Nowhere
| Jeff Lynne's ELO
From Out of Nowhere
From Out of Nowhere is the fourteenth studio album by British rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), and the second credited to Jeff Lynne's ELO. The band's first studio album in four years, it was released on 1 November 2019 through Big Trilby and Columbia Records. The title track was released as the lead single on 26 September 2019. Lynne played most instruments on the album.-"wikipedia"
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‘From Out Of Nowhere’ – a 45 that could have come out anytime in the last 45 years – is exactly what you would expect, and what’s wrong with that? You'll be whistling along before it's even half-way done.
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AP
“From Out of Nowhere” continues Lynne’s recent resurgence with songs that stay true to ELO’s immediately identifiable sounds. But to broaden the palette, after two albums that are solo efforts all in but name, Lynne should consider letting his much-praised touring band into the studio, too.
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Rolling Stone
“From Out of Nowhere” conjures vintage ELO, minus the symphonic edge of the band’s layered keyboards and strings.
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The Arts Desk
this is a lachrymose album, with lyrics full of final goodbyes which may or may not have poignant import for their private writer. Only when the reedy humanity of his diffident voice is left untouched, and matches these often maudlin tunes, does something beyond auto-pastiche emerge.
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Riff Magazine
The song’s main thrust is fine—it just doesn’t go anywhere, really. There aren’t many musical layers to speak of. The album starts to get interesting only halfway through. This seems to run counter to the record industry logic of grabbing a listener’s ears right out of the gate.
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Irish Times
His 14th studio album may offer nothing particularly new, but these songs are so enjoyable and well-constructed that it doesn’t really matter. Playing almost every instrument himself, Lynne nods to ghosts of the past on several of these songs.
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The Guardian
Lynne has come out of semi-retirement with an album of creamy harmonies and good-natured pop, firmly in the lineage of classic ELO
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Louder Sound
The wistfulness, the super-saturated sound, the layered harmonies and instrumentation, the timeless echo of pasts and retro-futures colliding. The humanity, the performed frailty at the heart of manufactured perfection. Lynne still has it. He still knows how to create the magic.
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