Swedish cult band Abba released their first studio album in almost 40 years. Since midnight on Friday night, the new album “Voyage” has been available online as well as on CD, vinyl and cassette. It features the previously published songs “I Still Have Faith In You”, “Don’t Shut Me Down” and “Just A Notion” as well as seven other songs by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid “Frida” Hear Lyngstad.
It is the ninth studio album and the first since “The Visitors”, which was released on November 30, 1981, for the quartet from the far north. After a last TV appearance at the end of 1982, the band took a break as a group, which ultimately lasted decades – after eight studio albums and included world hits such as “Waterloo”, “Mamma Mia”, “SOS” and “Dancing Queen”. Since then there have been numerous Abba compilations, but not a whole album with fresh studio recordings.
The next big Abba project is due next year: At the multimedia show “Abba Voyage” from the end of May 2022, virtual images of the band members – so-called Abbatars – together with a live band in a specially created arena in London on stage.