I LOVE this song. Its lovely soft sounds, its light joyous feel. The intro and chorus' descending chords complimented by the stagnant, yet ascending, octave synthbass joined at the end by the higher synth line, and "I am the city" each word going up before the chords travel down again.
One of the 7 songs ABBA recorded for the follow-up to The Visitors, which was provisionally entitled Opus 10. It was Steve Horry playing the song "The Visitors" last night at Keith TOTP's album launch that reminded me of this gem. "The Visitors" itself is an often-overlooked synthpop classic. Strange, dark and moody, with a wonderful sweeping (and what surely must be difficult to sing) melody. Bursting into the wonderfully poppy depiction of a mental breakdown in the "crackin' up" section.
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