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Electric Light Orchestra: From Out Of Nowhere

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2019.11.01
Time:
 32:39
Category: Pop/Rock, Electro-folk
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jefflynneselo.com
Appears with: Traveling Wilburys, Jeff Lynne
Purchase date: 2020
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] From Out of Nowhere (J.Lynne) - 3:14
[2] Help Yourself (J.Lynne) - 3:14
[3] All My Love (J.Lynne) - 3:06
[4] Down Came the Rain (J.Lynne) - 3:29
[5] Losing You (J.Lynne) - 3:36
[6] One More Time (J.Lynne) - 3:28
[7] Sci-Fi Woman (J.Lynne) - 3:07
[8] Goin' Out on Me (J.Lynne) - 3:09
[9] Time of Our Life (J.Lynne) - 3:10
[10] Songbird (J.Lynne) - 3:06

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Jeff Lynne - Vocals, Guitars, Bass guitar, Piano, Drums, Keyboards, Cello on [5], Vibraphone, Producer

Richard Tandy - Piano Solo on [6]
Steve Jay - Engineering, Mixing, Shaker, Tambourine

Bob Ludwig     Mastering
Ryan Corey - Art Direction, Design, Illustrations
Joseph Cultice - Photography

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2019 CD Columbia / Sony Music 598710
2019 CD Columbia / Sony Music 598711
2019 LP Columbia / Sony Music 598712
2019 LP Columbia / Sony Music 598713



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. Lynne stated that the first track he wrote for the album was the title track, and said it was named "From Out of Nowhere" as "that's exactly where it came from". Its themes of "hope and salvation" and optimism also appear throughout the album.




Unlike either its predecessor Alone in the Universe or 2001's Zoom, From out of Nowhere didn't appear after a prolonged period of silence from Jeff Lynne's ELO. It arrived in November of 2019, nearly exactly four years after Alone in the Universe, a rapid turnaround that recalls Lynne's work schedule as a bandleader and producer in the 1970s and '80s. That's not the only way From out of Nowhere conjures memories of the past. From the spaceship hovering on its record cover to the song title "Sci-Fi Woman" stirring up the ghost of "Evil Woman," the album is designed to sound and feel like an Electric Light Orchestra album from the late 1970s. That was true of Alone in the Universe too, but From out of Nowhere makes that album seem fresher in retrospect. Here, there is no clever embrace of digital technology or even nods to disco: it's all immaculate orchestrated pop punctuated with some old-time rock & roll. Listen not too closely and it may be possible to mistake these tunes for outtakes from A New World Record or Out of the Blue, since they have a similar pomp lushness. Listen a bit closer and the seams emerge. As elegant as they are, the melodies don't easily lodge in the subconscious, but the bigger problem is that the production - by Lynne, who plays virtually every note on the record - is airless and precise. This dryness is a remnant of the digital age, where every element in a recording is exactly in the right place, and if it's not quite a drawback, it does mean From out of Nowhere can be a bit of an uncanny valley: it's close enough to a genuine item to satisfy, yet different enough to disarm.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - AllMusic.com



Jeff Lynne will release the 14th Electric Light Orchestra album, From Out of Nowhere, on November 1st via Columbia Records. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee previewed the LP — the second billed under the moniker “Jeff Lynne’s ELO” following 2015’s Alone in the Universe — with the dreamy title track.

“From Out of Nowhere” conjures vintage ELO, minus the symphonic edge of the band’s layered keyboards and strings. “Let me go, let me fly to a place that I love,” Lynne croons over a jangling, descending guitar progression and steady, choppy drums. “Let me fly away and start anew.”

ELO recently concluded their second North American tour since 1981, featuring Dhani Harrison as opener. Lynne, the band’s singer-songwriter, performed virtually every instrument on the new record — just as he did on Alone in the Universe. According to the Amazon pre-order, he played “nearly every note of the music on guitars, bass, piano, drums, keyboards and vibes, as well as singing all of the lead and layered harmony vocals,” with engineer Steve Jay “[adding] some percussion.”

“From Out of Nowhere — that’s exactly where it came from,” Lynne said in a statement. “That’s the first one I wrote for this album, and it’s kind of like that.” He noted that he was aiming to spread optimism with both the song and album: “Everybody’s got to have a bit of hope.”

Ryan Reed - www.rollingstone.com



In 1970, the English studio-rock perfectionist Jeff Lynne started the orchestral, Beatle-esque band Electric Light Orchestra. In the decades that followed, Jeff Lynne has done a lot of things — the Traveling Wilburys, the production work for Roy Orbison and Tom Petty and the surviving Beatles, the constant appearances of “Mr. Blue Sky” in movie soundtracks. But along the way, Lynne has kept ELO going. And today, ELO — now formally known as Jeff Lynne’s ELO — have announced another album.

This fall, ELO — who joined the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017 and who toured North America last year — will follow up 2015’s Alone In The Universe with the new album From Out Of Nowhere. The album is pretty much an all-Jeff Lynne show. It features Lynne on guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, piano, keyboard, and vibraphone. Lynne also sings lead and layers up his own harmony vocals.

Lynne has shared first single “From Out Of Nowhere,” which is sadly not a Faith No More cover. Instead, it’s a juicy, catchy three-minute power-pop jam with big hooks, towering guitars, and some slight touches of vocoder. Below, listen to the song and check out the album’s tracklist.

Tom Breihan - September 26, 2019
www.stereogum.com
 

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