How to Use concept album in a Sentence

concept album

noun

• The concept album was released in 1970, when van Hove was young, and the music has lived in his head ever since.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• The concept album – and its just-as-famous cover – was a defining part of the Summer of Love and the 1960s’ evolving music scene.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
• Some of the songs have a theatrical feel, as if written for a concept album or a musical.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2023
• The album is pretty close to being a concept album, as far as like your commitment to sticking with the theme.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
• The band released its fourth studio record in 2020, a concept album called Tales from Yellowstone.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• With Black on the mic, expect Bowser to belt a lot of rock ballads — a good third of this movie is basically a Tenacious D concept album.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• The result is a dazzling work that falls somewhere between a song-cycle and a suite, a concept album and a free-flowing aural adventure.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• The 2005 concept album is still applauded for its imaginative indie-folk take on Illinois (as a state, as an essence).
  — Gloria Oladipo, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Here Lies Love was previously released as a concept album in 2010.
  — Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
• Grande has described Eternal Sunshine as a concept album, which makes a strong case for it being experienced all at once.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
• Imagine Kendrick telling Drake to take a five-year break, then come back with an 18-track concept album about being a vice-addled consequence of patriarchy and slavery.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
• But Taylor Swift became the master of blind item pop on her third release, a concept album in which each song is addressed to an unnamed recipient.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 5 May 2024
• Room, Room, Room often feels like a live performance of a folk-pop concept album, complete with dramatized liner notes — and its real achievement is that many of the songs do indeed slap.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps that’s why Combs has just done such a surprising turn-about, going deep with his latest project, Fathers & Sons, an intimate concept album that was released last month.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 13 July 2024
• The always intentional Knowles will surely leave fans gagged if her latest will be transformed into a visual concept album.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 14 Jan. 2024
• With each passing song, their voice only gets stronger, showing what a powerhouse vocalist like LP can accomplish with a simple concept album.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2023
• As Here Lies Love was based on a concept album of the same name, Levine’s roles working on music production and additional arrangements meant helping the creators flesh out the show and figuring out how the album songs would be adapted to the stage.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 14 June 2024
• At a low moment in Bechtel’s romantic life, Penelope came to him, inspiring music that developed into a concept album.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Chance’s relationship with Corley is a major recurring thematic throughline in his music — his 2019 album The Big Day was a concept album about the couple’s wedding day.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2024
• The concept album had songs representing different decades.
  — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Other session credits include Marty Stuart’s 1999 concept album The Pilgrim, among many others.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 July 2024
• Every indie music lover remembers listening to Sufjan Stevens’ seminal concept album Illinois for the first time.
  — Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
• Crafted as a concept album, Midnights draws inspiration from various sleepless nights, exploring themes from self-reflection to revenge fantasies to falling in love.
  — Nicole Sands, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024