★★★★★
Jeff Lynne makes no apologies for indulging himself with Long Wave. It is an album that looks at his musical heritage, examining influences and loves through the eyes of a man who has made multi layered synth pop his genre of choice. It also, on a more direct emotional level, looks with some affection at the songs he used to hear on the radio during his childhood in Birmingham...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
ELO man upgrades his hits and re-imagines his youth... At a certain point in their career, the successful rock star naturally leans towards a touch of retrospection, whether by way of an autobiography (as with Dylan's Chronicles Vol. 1), a variously revised, remixed or re-recorded edition of their oeuvre (as with Kate Bush's Director's Cut), or a sentimental indulgence in the kind of greasy-kidstuff radio fodder that first drew their attention to music (as in McCartney's Kisses On The Bottom)...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Usually when an older artist records a bunch of older songs it's referred to as a vanity project, or worse, a desperate swing at the ever burgeoning old fart demographic. Everyone from Rod Stewart to Paul McCartney can be accused of being this narcissistic or cynical or both...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Strange Magic Launching simultaneous projects this month, studio wiz and ELO frontman Jeff Lynne is waxing recollective. And at 64, as the mind, hand and voice behind ELO's mega-selling albums A New World Record and Out of the Blue, as well as a mountain of producing credits with the who's who of music, there's little reason stopping him...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
At just under 28 minutes, Jeff Lynne's Long Wave is a brief, bright, and gentle diversion. Lynne, the studio-rock maestro behind Electric Light Orchestra, says the album is a tribute to the songs of the early 1960s, an era when his love for music began. He tackles a range of styles from that time, including Broadway ballads, songbook standards, and rockabilly. Long Wave begins with a robust interpretation of French crooner Charles Aznavour's doe-eyed classic "She...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-10-08
★★★★★
A mere 22 years after his last solo album, 1990's Armchair Theatre, the man described by The Washington Times as "the fourth greatest record producer in history" returns with two. One, Mr. Blue Sky, features classics. The other is this collection: a love-letter to the songs heard on his dad's radio, songs which inspired him while growing up in Birmingham...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Quick, who were the five members of that adorable, top-selling1988 supergroup the Traveling Wilburys? Bob Dylan, George Harrison,Tom Petty, the late Roy Orbison -- and Jeff Lynne. Jeff who? That seemsto be how Lynne is best remembered these days. He's the Wilburynobody knows about. But Lynne produced the Wilburys. He alsoproduced top-selling albums for Harrison, Petty, and Orbison. And foryears he was singer and rhythm guitarist for Electric LightOrchestra...
- ew.com
2009-06-04
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