concept album

noun

: a collection of songs about a specific theme or story

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Miley Cyrus has released the new video for the title track of her new concept album, Something Beautiful, which starts out as an alt-R&B ballad, before exploding into distorted rock in its choruses. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025 Soothe your anxiety over murmurs of Radiohead activity by plunging into electronic veteran Mark Pritchard’s new full-length with Thom Yorke; ramp that anxiety up again with a sinister sci-fi concept album from the unstoppable billy woods. Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2025 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 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 15 Apr. 2025.

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