concept album

noun

: a collection of songs about a specific theme or story

Examples of concept album in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The upcoming concept album — a collaboration with Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter and composer Jimmy Harry — will be Chasez’s first major musical theater recording project. Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024 The Who’s Pete Townshend adapted Hughes’ book as his 1989 concept album The Iron Man: A Musical and was helping to develop a feature musical adaptation. Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024 This is a band who is currently nine-twelfths of the way through a series of EPs based on the Chinese Zodiac, who supplemented the landmark David Comes to Life concept album with a compilation of fake bands from the universe of the record. Brad Sanders, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2024 To come up with the concept album, Kahn had recruited Jónsi Birgisson, the front man of the Icelandic avant-garde rock band Sigur Rós; Paul Corley, a composer who produces the band; and C. J. Baran, a songwriter and producer who works with Carly Rae Jepsen. Oren Peleg, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 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 29 Sep. 2024.

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