Swedish pop sensation ABBA made a comeback on Friday with their new album “Voyage”, nearly 40 years after they split up, with a digital avatar concert planned in London.
Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid — forming the acronym ABBA — have not released any new music since their split in 1982, a year after their last album “The Visitors”.
“Voyage” went live at midnight Thursday in various time zones, to the delight of longtime fans worldwide.
“We are just in disbelief… that it’s something that we could experience again in our lifetimes,” longtime ABBA fan Jeffrey de Hart, 62, said at a listening party in Stockholm for the Swedish band’s much-anticipated release.
Critics though were split on the return.
US magazine Rolling Stone hailed it as “worth the wait,” while the UK’s Guardian newspaper dismissed it with a “no thank you for the music,” reappropriating one of the group’s most famous songs
