VINYL CONFESSIONS

Considering that Kansas jumped the pop train and went closer to stuff like AOR later on much like a lot of prog bands did back then, I'm not surprised by the negative reception. And believe me, a part of me wanted to dislike this because of that. But weirdly enough, I actually found this to be mostly decent. The lyrics weren't always up to pare on this one, I admit. But as far as their lesser prog sellout albums go, this one was actually pretty damn catchy. And on top of that, it used its extra room for some more unconventional riffs and melodies in the filler songs. I went into this completely expecting a piece of popy tripe like any Asia album or even Marillion's Holiday in Eden, and I came out with more of what I love about kansas than I expected. Still, I wouldn't even put it in the same league as Masque or Monolith, but it's kinda close. 72 / 100.

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