Album Review: ELO - Alone In The Universe (Columbia)

4/5

Wed, 04 Nov, 2015 - 00:00

Ed Power

The return to credibility of Jeff Lynne’s ELO is proof that, with time, everything comes back into fashion. Through the ’70s, ELO’s sumptuously-assembled pop symphonies were derided as The Beatles on steroids – musically overwrought, excessively earnest in tone and lyrics and accompanied by ridiculous sci-fi sleeve art.

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