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...