The Prelude Implicit
| The Prelude Implicit | ||||
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| Studio album by Kansas | ||||
| Released | September 23, 2016 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 53:19 | |||
| Label | Inside Out | |||
| Producer | Phil Ehart, Zak Rizvi, Rich Williams | |||
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The Prelude Implicit is the fifteenth studio album by American progressive 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 lead vocalist and keyboardist Ronnie Platt, keyboardist David Manion, and guitarist Zak Rizvi, who started as a co-producer and songwriter before being named a full member of the band.
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.
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.
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