Released today (November 1st), is From Out Of Nowhere, the second new album from Jeff Lynne’s ELO in only four years. The group’s last set, 2015’s Alone In The Universe, followed a 14-year break between Lynne’s last batch of new songs found on 2001’s Zoom.

Lynne spoke to Mojo and explained how the new album came about, recalling, “The record company asked me to do one. I was working on it in 2018, before we went on the big long tour around America, the UK and Europe. I had to say to (Sony Music Group CEO) Rob Stringer, ‘I really haven’t finished it yet.’ He was, ‘Fine, we’ll wait.’ It just wasn’t finished to the extent that I like it to be, production-wise, and arrangement-wise. I finally got it — I sang it better, put more harmonies in. I had a lot of fun, making it better by far than it was the year before.”