Power | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Kansas |
Cover: | Kansas - Power.jpg |
Released: | October 28, 1986 |
Recorded: | 1986 |
Studio: | The Castle, Franklin, Tennessee Abbey Road Studios, London, England (orchestra recording) |
Genre: | Hard rock, arena rock, pop rock |
Length: | 39:29 |
Label: | MCA |
Producer: | Andrew Powell, Phil Ehart |
Prev Title: | The Best of Kansas |
Prev Year: | 1984 |
Next Title: | In the Spirit of Things |
Next Year: | 1988 |
Power is the tenth studio album by American rock band Kansas, released in 1986. It was the band's first studio album for MCA Records. The album featured a new lineup, as the band reformed after a period of hiatus.
In a contemporary review, Xavier Russel of the British magazine Kerrang! called the pompous sound of Kansas "very dated" and, despite a few pleasant rockers like "Musicatto", found other songs "embarrassing beyond belief". In his retrospective review, AllMusic reviewer Bret Adams remarked that Kansas took a dramatic change in musical viewpoints, becoming "more hard rock and pop than prog rock", which "probably surprised longtime Kansas fans" but gave the band "an interesting, if ultimately short-lived, new direction."