“Voyage”
What can fans expect on the new ABBA album?
ABBA make their comeback with the album “Voyage”.
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It’s probably the hottest comeback of the year: ABBA are back. What does your new album “Voyage” have to offer?
In the spring of 1982 a break began that would not end until almost 40 years later: ABBA are back with new music! The cult band of the four Swedes Agnetha Fältskog (71), Björn Ulvaeus (76), Benny Andersson (74) and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (75) are releasing an album again. “Voyage” is out today, November 5th. What can the fans expect on the long player?
The pre-released singles have already given a foretaste of the ten new songs and show that the band has kept its 70s sound. Björn Ulvaeus described the new album in an interview with the “Guardian” End of October as “trend blind”. The new songs therefore deliberately ignore all developments in pop since the end of the band in the early 80s.
What are the new songs about?
With the first published tracks, the ballad “I Still Have Faith In You” and the uptempo song “Don’t Shut Me Down”, ABBA encourages itself and its fans in the lyrics: “I still have faith in you “and” I’m on fire, don’t let me down “- as if they had to reaffirm their return.
Björn Ulvaeus said in a press release about the third song “Just A Notion”, which had already been released in advance, that he “has no clue” why the song did not land on the album “Voulez-Vous” (1979). After all, the song was written in the late 1970s. The good mood song is “just about one thought”: the idea that “you will come up to me soon, you will smile and say hello, and we will dance through the night”. The album has seven other tracks to offer – including “I Can Be That Woman”, in German “I can be this woman”, and “Ode to Freedom”, in German: “Ode to freedom”.
So fans can experience the comeback up close
The fans have to hold on to this single comeback for better or worse: In an interview with the British “Guardian” Benny Andersson stated that he “never said” during the last ABBA appearance in 1982 that there would be no comeback. “But I can tell you now: that was it.” So there won’t be another “Here we go again” in the future.
If you want to experience ABBA on their comeback, you can turn on the TV tomorrow, Saturday: Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson are with Thomas Gottschalk (71) in “Wetten, dass ..?” (8:15 p.m., ZDF) as a guest. The digital concert highlight “ABBA Voyage” will also take place next year: On May 27, 2022, the four band members will perform for the first time as avatars in the form of their younger selves in the specially built ABBA Arena in London. There is also a ten-person live band. And it won’t stop at this concert: a total of 196 shows are planned for the period from May to December 2022. The exact dates and tickets are on the official website to find.