Kansas - The Absence of Presence

It's hard for me to determine what to expect from the title of Kansas new album "The Absence of Presence" (according to RYM)   and since nobody has heard a note yet, I was wondering based on the title what style you expect, what direction Kansas will take ?  I understand nobody has a crystal ball but I'm just curious in what you vote for. 

Edited by Enchant X - March 21 2020 at 03:24

Cristi wrote: if it's like the previous one, i'm good

dougmcauliffe wrote: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YbUbL_tQc&feature=youtu.be The album cover can be seen in this video, it looks like this one is gonna be a progger

Thanks for sharing this link, the new album cover looks amazing and the video itself very informative. 

Edited by Enchant X - March 21 2020 at 18:42

http://www.insideoutmusic.com/artist.aspx?IdArtist=432  (The Albums Cover art, click on it to make it bigger for more detail)   

Edited by Enchant X - March 23 2020 at 04:30

Man With Hat wrote: Being it's Kansas, I expect it not to be very good. ;)

If it's anything like the last one I'll be happy. 

While my Led Zeppelin joke unsurprisingly dropped like a lead balloon -- a lead zeppelin one might even say -- I'd say that cover indicates a pretty progressive album, perhaps in the vein of Eloy. It also does bring to mind earlier Kansas covers. My guess is that it will be a not terribly progressive album in the truest sense, but more of a Symphonic Prog/ AOR crossover kind of album (nothing really re-inventing the wheel so to speak or out there). I expect it to be on the melodic rock side, not really experimental, quite possibly with some hard rock aspects (maybe a ballad in there). It would cool if this is a completely new direction, but that would be doubtful as Kansas is probably too long in the tooth to reinvent itself as, say, Kansas Mark 2: A Jazz Odyssey. Then again, Kansas did name an earlier album "Always Never the Same".

I'm just guessing as someone who doesn't listen to Kansas (tried various things and owned one album), but I've often thought that you really can very often judge a book by its cover.

EDIT: SO I voted for the "It to be AOR & progressive" option, but not meaning progressive in the sense of advancement so much, and by AOR I refer to forms of melodic rock.

Edited by Logan - March 24 2020 at 13:21

That cover art is sweet, might be better without the Kansas logo tbh

Just looking at the cover art I’d say that it is an upcoming space rock album. More than anything it looks psychedelic.
This may just turn out to be the Kansas album that won me over