Björn told Smooth Radio: "It was a global reaction which was fantastic! We never expected it, but we just put it out because we thought the news would get out and there'd be rumours about a reunion and stuff.
"So we put out that just to make people aware there were these two new songs in the can and we thought we'd be able to release them much sooner."
However, ABBA fans will have to wait a bit longer, with Björn confirming: "Because of technical difficulties in creating the digital copies of ourselves that are going to sing these songs, it won't be until next year."
"Then Benny and I thought, 'These ABBAtars, for want of a better word, shouldn't they have something new to sing as well? Well, yes!' So we wrote a couple of new songs, we called the ladies and they said, 'Yeah, great! Let's meet in the studio and see if we still can sing! If it sounds bad, we won't release it, we'll just have fun in the studio'."
This is the first time ABBA have all been back in the studio together in almost 36 years, but Björn noted the band felt at home within seconds.
Björn continued: "Oh yes, it just took virtually seconds. We were standing in front of one of those sound desks in the control room, the four of us, and we were just kind of looking at each other.
For all you Jason Isbell fans out there, he just released a bunch of live shows for download and streaming, and promises that there's more to come. Enjoy!
Local:
Aruba – S/T
Melted Mirror – Past Life
Purlicue – Dip N’ Dot
Salt Horse – Sick Transit
Sections - Demos
Shiverettes – Real Shrill Bitches
Sunglaciers – Foreign Bodies
Canada:
Bad Hoo – What Is When?
Ex-Softess – Hollow Ritual
Fancy Diamonds – Shiny Side Out
Greys – Age Hasn’t Spoiled You
Headache24– M For Love
It’s Always Fuzzy – S/T
Kiwi Jr. – Football Money
Little You Little Me – Hard To Say, Not Knowing
Lunatic Touch – Every Dream’s A Nightmare
MomBod – MomBod
New Pornographers – In The Morse Code Of Break Lights
Operators – Radiant Dawn
Pottery– No. 1
Puzzlehead – Big Sniff
Rheostatics – Here Come The Wolves
Shemie, Ben – A Skeleton
Urkimsher – S/T
Wild/Kind – West Ends
Other:
Angelic Milk – Divine Biker Blood
An Horse – Modern Air
Balms – Mirror
Cosmonauts – Star 69
Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Deer Tick – Mayonnaise
Drahla – Useless Coordinates
Dressy Bessy – Fast Faster Disaster
Dude York - Falling
Ex Hex – It’s Real
Flat Worms – Into The Iris
Futureheads – Powers
Gordon, Kim – No Home Record
Guided by Voices – Warp And Woof
Guided By Voices – Zeppelin Over China
Harlem – Oh Boy
Hatfield, Juliana – Weird
Herzog – Me Vs. You
Kosmo, Jonny – S/T
Krol, Mike – Power Chords
Malkmus, Stephen – Groove Denied
Marble Arch – Children Of The Slump
Mekons - Deserted
Mould, Bob – Sunshine Rock
Mystery Lights – Too Much Tension!
Nanami Ozone – NO
Pink Mexico – Dump
Prince - Originals
Redd Kross – Beyond The Door
Replacements – Dead Man’s Pop
Sacred Paws – Run Around The Sun
Scrunchies - Stunner
Sheer Mag – A Distant Call
Super Doppler – S/T
Swervedriver – Future Ruins
Tacocat – This Mess Is A Place
Thunderpaw – The Land Of Forbidden Knowledge
Twilight Sad – It Won/t Be Like This All The Time
Vampire Weekend – Father Of The Bride
Vivian Girls - Memory
Wand – Laughing Matter
