Released September 23, 2016 Release date 23 September 2016 Genre Progressive rock | Artist Kansas Label InsideOut Records | |
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Producer Phil Ehart, Zak Rizvi, Rich Williams Similar Kansas albums, Progressive rock albums | ||
The newest incarnation of kansas on the prelude implicit
The Prelude Implicit is the fifteenth studio album by American rock band Kansas, released in September 2016. It is their third studio album without founding member, lead vocalist and keyboardist Steve Walsh, who retired from the band in 2014; the other two being 1982's Vinyl Confessions and 1983's Drastic Measures. It is their first album with new lead vocalist and keyboardist Ronnie Platt, supporting keyboardist David Manion and additional guitarist Zak Rizvi, who started as a co-producer and outside songwriter before being named a full member of the band. The Prelude Implicit is their first on German label Inside Out Music having signed with it in September 2015.
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Background
The first album since 2000's Somewhere to Elsewhere, it marks the longest period between two Kansas studio albums to date. Founding member Kerry Livgren, who had returned as the main songwriter for that album, departed the band again following its release leaving Steve Walsh as the group's sole songwriter. His reluctance towards committing to new studio material left the band without new output. While the group would continue to release live and compilation albums throughout the next decade, Native Window was formed as a side project by Ehart, Greer, Ragsdale and Williams who wanted to record new material as a separate entity.
Walsh's departure in 2014 and the addition of Platt and Manion and later Rizvi paved the way for a new Kansas album.
Personnel
Charts
In addition to the charts above, the album reached the following positions on these Billboard Charts: #15 on the Top 100 Album Sales chart, #5 on the Rock Album chart, #17 on the Vinyl Album Sales Chart, #14 on the Tastemakers chart, and #3 on the Independent Album chart.
Songs
1With This Heart4:14
2Visibility Zero4:28
3The Unsung Heroes5:02