ABBA made its comeback on Friday with a new album "Voyage", after forty years of absence. In Stockholm, fans reacted to listening to this album, with emotion. “This is the first time in forty years that we can listen to a completely new Abba album, it's just amazing that it is possible. We dreamed of it for many years and we would never have thought it was possible, but now it is, ”enthuses Jeffrey de Hart, American fan of the group. Since their de facto separation at the end of 1982, a year after their last album "The Visitors", Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid had not released songs and put away their famous kitsch costumes in the locker room. “I really like what I just heard, it sounds a lot like ABBA but today. It's not dated,It doesn't look like something that's 40 years old, ”says Émilie De Laere, a young Belgian lover of the legendary group.
The release of this new album by the legendary group is also welcomed as excellent news for Swedish record stores.
“This is probably the biggest release I've ever worked on.
And I have been working at the store for 10 years and have never seen anything like it.
So I'm really delighted to be part of it, ”explains Samuel Hägglund, manager of De Bengans store in Stockholm.
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The announcement in early September of the reformation of the group, during an XXL ceremony toured in several capitals, had gone around the world, after years of speculation.
Composed of ten tracks, “Voyage” is the unforeseen fruit of a project on which ABBA has been working for years: a concert of “revolutionary” digital avatars, supposed to relegate to the shelf of junk the holograms that have flourished in recent years in the world. music world.
ABBA will be back on stage on May 27, 2022… in the form of holograms, the “ABBAtars”, in a hall specially built in London for a futuristic show.
