#ABBA Announce First Album in 40 Years, Share New Songs: Listen

Swedish pop icons ABBA have shared two new songs, the previously teased “I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down.” The tracks will be included on Voyage, the band’s first new album since 1981. The record is out November 5. Hear the songs below.

ABBA released The Visitors, the final album of their original run, in November 1981 before unofficially disbanding in 1982. ABBA reunited in 2018, 35 years after releasing the farewell single “Thank You for the Music.” It was then that they teased the eventual release of “I Still Have Faith in You.”

Since at least 2016, ABBA have been teasing a digitally-aided return. And, finally, on May 27, 2022, the quartet will perform the ABBA Voyage concert with a 10-piece band at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The original members—Benny Anderson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog, and Björn Kristian Ulvaeus—will be performing as digital versions of themselves, which are previewed in the “I Still Have Faith in You” visual. It took “weeks and months of motion-capture and performance techniques” to create the hologram artists, according to a press release.

Revisit “The Reconsideration of ABBA, a Band Beyond Taste” over on the Pitch.

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Voyage:

01 I Still Have Faith in You
02 When You Danced With Me
03 Little Things
04 Don’t Shut Me Down
05 Just a Notion
06 I Can Be That Woman
07 Keep an Eye on Dan
08 Bumblebee
09 No Doubt About It
10 Ode to Freedom