ABBA - The Visitors (1981/2012) [Complete CD] Deluxe edition

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 records ever to be digitally recorded and mixed, as well as one of the earliest in history to be pressed on the CD format in 1983. 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.

Tracklist:
01 - The Visitors 0:00
02 - Head Over Heels 5:46
03 - When All Is Said And Done 9:35
04 - Soldiers 12:53
05 - I Let The Music Speak 17:33
06 - One Of Us 22:56
07 - Two For The Price Of One 26:53
08 - Slipping Through My Fingers 30:31
09 - Like An Angel Passing Through My Room 34:26

Bonus Tracks:
10 - Should I Laugh Or Cry 38:05
11 - I Am The City
12 - You Owe Me One
13 - Cassandra
14 - Under Attack
15 - The Day Before You Came

Extra Bonus Track:
16 - From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel (Demos) 1:04:52

ABBA
Anni-Frid Lyngstad – lead vocals (1, 3, 5, 9), backing Vocals
Agnetha Fältskog – lead vocals (2, 4, 6, 8), backing Vocals
Björn Ulvaeus – acoustic guitar, guitar, mandolin, lead vocals (7), backing vocals
Benny Andersson – synthesizers, keyboards, backing vocals

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