ABBA‘s Agnetha Fältskog has returned together with her first new music in 10 years, saying the only ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ and new album ‘A+’, a reimagining of her 2013 solo album ‘A’.
The Swedish singer-songwriter’s new monitor is out in the present day (August 31) and was recorded in 2023 to be added to the re-release of her 2013 album ‘A’.
‘A+’ is due out October 13, and you’ll pre-order/pre-save it right here.
Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the report, Fältskog mentioned the thought of what it could sound like if it was created in 2023 alongside songwriter and producer Jörgen Elofsson. They labored with producer Anton ‘Hybrid’ Mårtensson to remodel the entire report, protecting the unique vocals from 2013 however creating new music for 2023.
“A few years in the past I heard one of many songs from my final album ‘A’ on the radio. I’ve a number of fond reminiscences from making that album, so I couldn’t assist however smile, time flies…,” Fältskog wrote in a letter to followers.
“Suddenly it hit me, what would the album sound like if we had made it in the present day…? I couldn’t cease occupied with it. I reached out to the boys who produced ‘A’ again in 2013 – ‘What would you guys take into consideration reimagining ‘A’ and making a completely new model of it?’ They cherished the thought! ‘Let’s strive!’”
She continued: “Some time later I heard the primary reworked track, and I need to say I completely cherished it! It sounded so recent and fashionable, even higher than I had imagined it!
“We named the album A+ and as a cherry on prime we even recorded a model new track! And that might be the very first thing you´ll hear from me. Now I can’t wait to listen to what you concentrate on it! I hope you prefer it as a lot as I do!”
Listen to ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ beneath.
Speaking in regards to the reimagined model of the album, Elofsson added: “When we made the album ‘A’ ten years in the past, it was a little bit of a response towards EDM and the dance music that dominated the pop world on the time.
“We subsequently did one thing that was precisely the alternative, arranger Peter Nordahl created timeless string preparations. Now, once we introduced the songs into in the present day’s music world, we had been all shocked by how nicely it really works. The songs have blossomed into the pop songs they’re at their core. Anton, who wasn’t there final time, comes from a special era and has performed with fully totally different rhythms.”
Released in 2013, ‘A’ marked Fältskog’s first album since her 2004 assortment of covers ‘My Colouring Book’.
The ‘A+’ tracklisting is:
‘Where Do We Go From Here?’
‘Back On Your Radio (A+)’
‘I Should’ve Followed You Home (feat. Gary Barlow) (A+)’
‘Dance Your Pain Away (A+)’
‘I Was A Flower (A+)’
‘Perfume In The Breeze (A+)’
‘Past Forever (A+)’
‘The One Who Loves You Now (A+)’
‘Bubble (A+)’
‘When You Really Loved Someone (A+)’
‘I Keep Them On The Floor Beside My Bed (A+)’
Back in May, digital live performance collection ABBA Voyage celebrated one 12 months since its premiere, and organisers marked the anniversary by releasing new photographs of the manufacturing.
The present has been critically acclaimed, with NME describing it as a “feel-good sensory overload” the place “digital sorcery meets pure pop bangers” in a five-star assessment.
The ABBA Voyage digital live performance collection is at present set to run in London into 2024, with plans reported for the expertise to be taken on a world tour.
Asked about what the way forward for the present entails, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus advised NME earlier this summer season: “We hope to remain on this [London] venue for so long as we will. We hope they’ll have us for a few years, and we’d construct different replicas of this in different places: Asia, Australia, North America. There are heaps and promoters and cities that we’re speaking to in the meanwhile about that.
“Each one would take a minimum of two years to construct, however there might be bulletins in the direction of the top of this 12 months or the start of subsequent about the place we really are going. That’s if we’re going someplace, which we’ll.”
The final new music from band got here on the 2021 accompanying ‘Voyage’ album containing the two current singles ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ and ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’. Asked if there was a hope for extra new music from the band to return, Ulvaeus replied: “No, ‘Voyage’ the album was the final you’ll ever hear from us” – however he did stay open to the thought of the band returning for extra initiatives just like the reside present, benefiting from new rising applied sciences.
“There might be new thrilling codecs sooner or later that we all know little or no about proper now,” he added. “AI, the metaverse, there are many fascinating and thrilling issues occurring creatively that ABBA is likely to be concerned in as nicely.”
Visit right here for tickets ‘ABBA Voyage’ in London, now operating into 2024.
