concept album

noun

: a collection of songs about a specific theme or story

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Safe House is sung through, a kind of dramatized concept album, and like the video imagery, Walsh’s lyrics veer dark and grainy. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025 On Kameron Marlowe’s third Sony Music Nashville album, Sad Songs For the Soul, out Friday (Feb. 21) he’s veered from crafting a standard country project to fashioning a concept album focused on those with shattered hearts. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2025 That grisly tale might seem an unlikely theme upon which to build a concept album, but Seth Avett saw something deeper in the story’s themes. Bill Kopp, SPIN, 25 Nov. 2024 Part of that is by design — American Idiot leans into the punk rock ethos of Green Day, essentially turning a concept album into a piece of musical theater. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for concept album

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“Concept album.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concept%20album. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.

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