Nearly 40 years after their break-up, Abba’s reunion album upholds the contradictory legacy of the very first Swedish pop powerhouse. Half of this record finds hatchet-burying divorcés Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus returning as titans of emotionally literate pop. There are songs here with a cinematographic grasp of gesture allied to countermelodies of aching prettiness, almost casually thrown away.
A1 | I Still Have Faith In You |
A2 | When You Danced With Me |
A3 | Little Things |
A4 | Don't Shut Me Down |
A5 | Just A Notion |
B1 | I Can Be That Woman |
B2 | Keep An Eye On Dan |
B3 | Bumblebee |
B4 | No Doubt About It |
B5 | Ode To Freedom |