ABBA announces the first album in 40 years, shares new songs: listen

Swedish pop icons ABBA have shared two new songs, the ones that had already been mocked “I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down”. Tracks will be included a Journey, the band’s first new album since 1981. The album was released on November 5th. Listen to the songs below.

ABBA released The visitors, the final album of its original version, in November 1981 before officially disbanding in 1982. ABBA reunited in 2018, 35 years after releasing the farewell single “Thank You for the Music”. That’s when they triggered the final release of “I Still Have Faith in You.”

Since 2016, at least, ABBA has brought about a return with digital help. And finally, on May 27, 2022, the quartet will perform the ABBA Voyage concert with a 10-piece band at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. The original members — Benny Anderson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog, and Björn Kristian Ulvaeus — will act as digital versions of themselves, which are previously displayed in the “I still have faith in you” image. According to a press release, it took “weeks and months of motion capture and performance techniques” to create the hologram artists.

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