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Jeff Lynne’s ELO ‘From Out Of Nowhere ‘drops today

NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 07: 2017 Inductee Jeff Lynne of ELO performs onstage at the 32nd Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on April 7, 2017 in New York City. The event will broadcast on HBO Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 8:00 pm ET/PT (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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.”

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