The Visitors
by ABBA
- Type: Album
- Released: 30 November 1981
- Label: Polar
- Country: Sweden
- Length: 57:14
- Community rating: 4.01/5 from 4 ratings
Artists on this release: Rutger Gunnarsson, 脜ke Sundqvist, Benny Andersson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Serving as their final studio album before a decades-long hiatus, 'The Visitors' is a surprisingly dark and introspective work. ABBA utilizes cold synthesizer textures and complex vocal arrangements to navigate themes of political paranoia and marital collapse. This art-pop pivot remains their most mature and emotionally weighty release.
Genres
Descriptors: sophisticated, polished, synth, elegant, swedish
Tracklist
- The Visitors (5:47)
- Head Over Heels (3:48)
- When All Is Said And Done (3:18)
- Soldiers (4:40)
- I Let The Music Speak (5:21)
- One Of Us (3:57)
- Two For The Price Of One (3:37)
- Slipping Through My Fingers (3:53)
- Like An Angel Passing Through My Room (3:34)
- Should I Laugh Or Cry (4:32)
- The Day Before You Came (5:49)
- Cassandra (4:52)
- Under Attack (3:47)
Credits
- Julius Kronberg - artwork [painting in background]
- Rutger Gunnarsson - bass
- Rune S枚derqvist - design [album design]
- Michael B. Tretow - engineer
- Bj枚rn Ulvaeus - guitar [acoustic]
- Lasse Wellander - guitar [acoustic], guitar [electric]
- Benny Andersson - keyboards, synthesizer
- Olle Ramm - lacquer cut by
- Peter Strindberg - lacquer cut by
- 脜ke Sundqvist - percussion
- Lars Larsson - photography by
- Bj枚rn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson - written-by, arranged by, producer