Voyage
by ABBA
  • Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Nov 5, 2021
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Mojo
    Nov 16, 2021
    60
    While there's nothing here that immediately screams to be considered in the front rank of their input, the more you listen, the more it feels like being reunited with some long-lost, missing-presumed-dead relatives. ... Voyage is just as good as you expect. [Jan 2022, p.84]
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  2. The Observer (UK)
    Nov 8, 2021
    60
    There are songs here with a cinematographic grasp of gesture allied to countermelodies of aching prettiness, almost casually thrown away. In the very same breath, though, Voyage packs in a surfeit of hokey oompah and two Christmas tunes too many.
  3. The Line of Best Fit
    Nov 5, 2021
    60
    Unfortunately though, as a solidified body of work, it’s lacking. It can be likened to the Star Wars sequels: nostalgic, fun and thrilling, yet relies on sentimentality to entertain. It fails to offer anything particularly new, and feels completely thrown together disregarding the potential greatness that could’ve been.
  5. The Telegraph (UK)
    Nov 4, 2021
    60
    When the harmonies blend and Andersson’s piano rings out, it sounds enough like Abba to have hardcore fans tossing their feather boas in the air. But the dancing queens have lost the spring in their step, and the result is out-of-time rather than timeless.
  6. New Musical Express (NME)
    Nov 4, 2021
    60
    There are some bumpy moments along the way, but this ‘Voyage’ is a nostalgia trip worth taking.
  7. Clash Music
    Nov 5, 2021
    50
    It’s a theatrical 10-piece song cycle that neatly extends their work, while nodding to what came before. At its best – opener and lead single ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ for example – it comes close to reaching the transformative peaks ABBA scaled all those years ago. Yet for a piece of fan service ‘Voyage’ remains confusingly slight.
  8. The Guardian
    Nov 4, 2021
    40
    Rather than reflecting poignantly on the past, much of the rest of Voyage feels terminally stuck there.

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User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 78 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 67 out of 78
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 78
  3. Negative: 4 out of 78
  1. 1972stu
    Nov 6, 2021
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I felt like a child at Christmas anxious to open my gifts. While a few of the songs delivered exactly what I wanted, sadly the rest left me strongly underwhelmed. In saying that, listening again much like picking up a discarded Christmas present on boxing day, I discovered a few more enjoyable tracks.
    This album is quintessentially ABBA but without the memories of the 70s and 80s that listening to their previous material summons, then sadly this album doesn't deliver. Perhaps in 20 years I'll be enjoying voyage as much as the earlier albums.    … Full Review »
  2. Iacomus
    Nov 6, 2021
    7
    It’s ok. If I had to rank their albums it’d be one of their lowest but it’s always good to hear a new ABBA album. I just wish the productionIt’s ok. If I had to rank their albums it’d be one of their lowest but it’s always good to hear a new ABBA album. I just wish the production was a little better. I already anticipated that Fridas and agnethas voices had drastically declined. Not terrible, not great. Just ok.… Full Review »
  3. Guh
    Nov 5, 2021
    10
    ABBA's best album. Wonderful songs, exquisite production, incredible vocals and compositions always at the highest level. ABBA simply made theABBA's best album. Wonderful songs, exquisite production, incredible vocals and compositions always at the highest level. ABBA simply made the biggest comeback of all time, that's not opinion, it's a fact.… Full Review »
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