GABBA: Leave Stockholm

In the days before the mash-up became the purview of every digi-geek, merging two contradictory (but weirdly complementary) styles of music involved intense labour. Witness London's currently-inactive Gabba, who like Dread Zeppelin before them created a fascinating hybrid of two divergent seventies phenomenon, the Ramones and ABBA. While the novelty factor is outta site here - bordering on dinner theater - this out-of-print 1999 record has grown on me over time despite my long-espoused ABBA-ophbia.




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