Examples of concept album in a Sentence
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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.
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2024
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
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
What there is instead is a brilliantly inventive magnum opus by Anaïs Mitchell, a masterwork that garnered eight Tony Awards when — after a rambling route of out-of-town productions, a concert tour, a concept album and off-Broadway stagings — the show debuted on the Great White Way in 2019.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
Some listeners would see The Downward Spiral as a loose concept album about a man falling apart, not unlike Roger Waters’ self-loathing megalomania that fuelled Pink Floyd’s The Wall—another major influence on the album, although Reznor would offer no conclusive ending to his narrative.
—Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
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
The concept album had songs representing different decades.
—CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
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
Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2024
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
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
What there is instead is a brilliantly inventive magnum opus by Anaïs Mitchell, a masterwork that garnered eight Tony Awards when — after a rambling route of out-of-town productions, a concert tour, a concept album and off-Broadway stagings — the show debuted on the Great White Way in 2019.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
Some listeners would see The Downward Spiral as a loose concept album about a man falling apart, not unlike Roger Waters’ self-loathing megalomania that fuelled Pink Floyd’s The Wall—another major influence on the album, although Reznor would offer no conclusive ending to his narrative.
—Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
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
The concept album had songs representing different decades.
—CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
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
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“Concept album.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concept%20album. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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