ABBA Reforms

Swedish supergroup from the 70's and 80's ABBA have reformed and will have new music out in December, to be performed by their virtual selves (they will be touring as a hologram virtual band) on a BBC programme.

While they have recorded two new songs, they have quickly shot down any rumours of touring or headlining Glastonbury or similar festivals.

uhm guys has this been posted

it FEELS like an abba hologram

what even is that blur or whatever anyway. looks like a 'yamauba'/alienbabby being born

i know the song is devoted to stuff it's just damn they made abba dark as fuck

  On 4/30/2018 at 6:21 PM, Ragnar said:

what even is that blur or whatever anyway. looks like a 'yamauba'/alienbabby being born

 

i know the song is devoted to stuff it's just damn they made abba dark as fuck

It was made for the soundtrack to High Rise.

That film isn't exactly a family movie.

  On 4/30/2018 at 6:28 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 4/30/2018 at 6:21 PM, Ragnar said:

what even is that blur or whatever anyway. looks like a 'yamauba'/alienbabby being born

 

i know the song is devoted to stuff it's just damn they made abba dark as fuck

It was made for the soundtrack to High Rise.

That film isn't exactly a family movie.

 

at the end though it's about a british poltician killed by a hate group or something too, though

Abba subforum

Even if that were the end of High Rise, what does that have to do with the price of eggs?

  On 4/30/2018 at 7:51 PM, Gocab said:

Abba subforum

ABBA virtual hologram subforum

Lol, most IDM 2018

Abba are a huge guilty pleasure of mine; they have some fantastic tunes and some absolutely dire ones.

Can't see this being anything other than awful though

Agnetha Fältskog was my 1st noticeable crush

"come to Butthead"

  On 4/30/2018 at 5:51 PM, Joyrex said:

Swedish supergroup from the 70's and 80's ABBA have reformed and will have new music out in December, to be performed by their virtual selves (they will be touring as a hologram virtual band) on a BBC programme.

 

While they have recorded two new songs, they have quickly shot down any rumours of touring or headlining Glastonbury or similar festivals.

Like a hologram of themselves in their youth or some Gorillaz style shit?

will abba holograms be shirtless constantly

I heard they are doing a harsh noise/doom metal side project.

  On 5/1/2018 at 2:44 AM, DavieAddison said:

 

  On 4/30/2018 at 5:51 PM, Joyrex said:

Swedish supergroup from the 70's and 80's ABBA have reformed and will have new music out in December, to be performed by their virtual selves (they will be touring as a hologram virtual band) on a BBC programme.

 

While they have recorded two new songs, they have quickly shot down any rumours of touring or headlining Glastonbury or similar festivals.

 

Like a hologram of themselves in their youth or some Gorillaz style shit?

 

I believe in their youth, similar to how they've done Tupac and Michael Jackson hologram "performances" recently.

  On 5/1/2018 at 11:20 AM, Polytrix said:

I heard they are doing a harsh noise/doom metal side project.

  On 5/1/2018 at 4:14 PM, fletcher said:

 

  On 5/1/2018 at 11:20 AM, Polytrix said:

I heard they are doing a harsh noise/doom metal side project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWonx6SdszM

Lol I was thinking more kind of Merzbow mixed with Mayhem with a single female singer lovingly voicing SOS or something. That could actually be amazing.

  On 5/1/2018 at 1:32 AM, Stickfigger said:

Watching ABBA live without your mum - Most IDM 2018

Who woulda thunk -- ABBA are the new Kraftwerk (well, kinda). Pretty IDM, actually.

ABBATRON

So I've always had a soft spot for ABBA, I used to hear it a lot as a kid and now my own kids are into it.

And they always were great at what they did, and used a lot of electronic stuff.

Exhibit A, this is from 1979. I mean, you know this song already, but just listen to it.

Listen to that bass growl at 0:11, the synths at 0:19, the structure of the song, the strings, the lyrics. Its kind of an obvious point to make but Abba were geniuses.

And I gotta say of the two tracks they unveiled today I absolutely love this one:

On the first listen I was like 'yeah this is an abba track' but on the second listen it really got me - this is grade A pop written by people in their 70s, and its about things that would resonate with people that have got a good four or five decades (at least) of life behind them, themes of return and growth and the past, things you dont normally hear in pop songs. And of course its also all a metaphor for their return. The lyrics are absolutely perfect, and so genuine. And the lovely basslines, and synths, and structure. I'm really amazed at what they've done.
 

Those Avatar sequels seem like they’re taking forever to Finnish 

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Never was a fan but i'm kinda curious what they came up with

  On 9/3/2021 at 7:36 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

Never was a fan but i'm kinda curious what they came up with

It's quite good