When groups like The Flaming Lips and Daft Punk borrow sounds from the past to create futuristic music, Electric Light Orchestra is often the reference—Daft Punk even shares an album title with ELO’s Discovery. Band co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Lynne was so far ahead that ELO’s 1979 album Discovery sounds equally fresh alongside Daft Punk’s […]
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