Abba The Visitors

The Visitors is the eighth studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released on 30 November 1981.
With The Visitors, ABBA took several steps away from the "lighter" pop music they had recorded previously and the album is often regarded as a more complex and mature effort. The opening track, "The Visitors", with its ominous synthesizer sounds and the distinctive lead vocal by Frida, announced a change in musical style. With Benny and Frida going their separate ways, the pain of splitting up was explored yet again in "When All Is Said and Done". The major hit single on the album, "One of Us", also depicted the end of a love story. Elsewhere there were Cold War themes—highly topical at the time—and further songs of isolation and regret.
The Visitors was one of the first albums to be digitally recorded and mixed. The Visitors was also one of the earliest to be manufactured commercially on compact disc, it was released after 52nd Street by Billy Joel (the first available in this format). The Visitors has been reissued in digitally remastered form four times—first in 1997, then in 2001, again in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set and most recently in 2012, as part of the "Deluxe Edition" series.
For four decades, The Visitors stood as ABBA's last studio album, until the release of their 2021 album, Voyage.
"For the album finale in 1981, the pop heroes from Sweden were melancholic and mature." - Musikexpress, June 2012

Features:

• 180g Vinyl

Selections:

Side A
1. The Visitors
2. Head Over Heels
3. When All Is Said And Done
4. Soldiers
Side B
1. I Let The Music Speak
2. One Of Us
3. Two For The Price Of One
4. Slipping Through My Fingers
5. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room