The quartet's final album was recorded during a period of major personal
shake-ups, principally in the decision by Benny Andersson and Frida to
follow the same route to divorce that had already been taken by Bj?rn
Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog. Both male members of the group would soon
remarry, but at the time, despite all of these changes in their
circumstances, The Visitors was never intended as ABBA's swan song — they
were to go on recording together. That may explain why, rather than a
threadbare, thrown-together feel, The Visitors is a beautifully made, very
sophisticated album, filled with serious but never downbeat songs, all
beautifully sung and showing off some of the bold songwriting efforts. The
title-track is a topical song about Soviet dissidents that also manages
to be very c...
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