The three hundred and seventy-third album: #373 Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Rather than being able to find a standout track in Out of the Blue, I find Electric Light Orchestra's sound more interesting. At first listen, it's a pop rock album. Digging deeper, there are a number of interesting effects that add to that, but never enough to feel massively different. The presence of a violin as part of the core sound is good, but doesn't feel like it always meaningfully change the songs. It's there, but it feels like it never gets the emphasis that you want.
Instead, we get some fun poppy songs with heavy vocorder use and quite different times - a fire extinguisher on Mr Blue Sky, the most recognisable track to be, as well as other surprising sounds. It works fine as a nice pop album, but I also don't feel like there's nothing I'm really going to remember about this album.