Ah, the perks of working at the Loaf: I'm listening to a review copy of Mamma Mia! movie soundtrack that cubicle buddy/Bar Tab-ber/music critic Wade Tatangelo was kind enough to pass on to me, as he knows I'm a big ABBA fan (and, more importantly, had no intention of reviewing himself).
My first impression of the CD is that the arrangements are very faithful to the original versions. No surprise, since Benny Andersson, one of the group's original members and architects of its sound, also produced this album.
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2008.