most of the songs and their arrangements are beautiful.  i can't wait for the next album and seeing abba in person.  the only thing i was disappointed in was the recording quality.  music with such depth and great arrangements would stand out more with surround sound quality
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Abba Roland confirms the theory that the vocals of a band can make or break the sound; vocals often are what give a band their distinction, they are what allows the average listener to identify who they're listening to. And then you have your vocalist types- and again, you have those nice-enough voices that are just fine and dandy, and then occasionally, more rare, there are the voices who speak from some other world- used more like the true instruments that they are.  Lucky Moon features such a woman, with a voice you might describe as haunting, spooky, withered, wasted, spent, hoarse, scratchy, straining or sparse- and yet those are all the things that make these giagantic, oceanic pop songs so unusual, so striking, so unforgettable. The instrumentation doesn't shy away from fully commiting itself either- these songs throw themselves forward with nothing to lose, no timidity, no fear. This is a gorgeous album which beautifully matches the lush and soaring with the tattered and coarse. This is one to pay attention to. 
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