Electric Light Orchestra – Moment of Truth review

The second part of a band that could never fully recover balance of powerElectric Light Orchestra, or what was left of it, is facing a second album full of problems. It would bring the band to a halt, another failed soft launch from ELO without the charm of Jeff Lynne. Electric Light Orchestra Part Two. As intrusive as can be and a continuation of the sound that charmed the world, it's a failure. Moment of truth is an admission of this and would mean the end of this spin-off. But there was still an audience hungry for their glitzy rock style, and by the low point of Slop We Go, another slice of what might feel like ELO is out there.

Well, not out there. It was deleted from Spotify and the only remnants of it remain Moment of truth Stay in YouTube's copyright battle. But albums are elusive for a reason. All of this points to an attempt to soak up nostalgia. Even the opening overture has its problems, and they all point to a desire to revisit the past. Harmless noise and tedious for what it is. The band splits up and Kelly Groucutt, Eric Troyer and Phil Bates share vocal duties. Even the London Session Orchestra is willing to make you feel like this is a living, breathing ELO album rather than the chaotic, stitched-together corpse of uneventful, leftover scraps. It has that balance of power The problem is that it's a repetitive and lyrically bleak experience. Keep breaking down these walls, it won't bring lyrical enlightenment.

Pointless nonsense is the real game Moment of trutha shame given the possibilities elsewhere in this album. The album as a whole fails to move ELO toward the grounded, often heartfelt lyrical occasions led by Lynne. Instead, their lyrics have a literal space age style and they transition into a space rock parody of what the band once was. There's too much worry about alienating fans with abstract ideas and instead it's the responsibility of the images of the past to do the heavy lifting that Groucutt and company can't do. Ultimately a meaningless work. Another morning would work if, like most other tracks with potential, they weren't so reliant on the orchestral aspect and weren't as repetitive as ELO at its deepest. Banal moments like that I don't want to Get to the heart of what's wrong with this version of the band. They are lazy instrumentalists working with lackluster lyrics.

Deep, bloated and almost the kind of hymns in which empty hearts find warmth. Voices is a disturbing piece of work. But that's how it is Moment of trutha vague and silly attempt to overcome the creative forces still remaining in ELO's saucer-shaped corpse. Lynne would at least pursue other avenues of creativity, and he was better for it. What's happening here is a chance for fraudsters to lay claim to a band that could have existed with or without them. Loose and light rock at the best of times, Moment of truth is a sobering experience – one comparable to the humble parts of The Beach Boys or The Velvet Underground at their worst. This is the development of a band that loses its main actors.

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