concept album

noun

: a collection of songs about a specific theme or story

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Gaye built his concept album around a speaker who’d been off fighting a war. Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 11 June 2025 The show first took shape in the early 1980s as a concept album. Dave Quinn, People.com, 28 May 2025 The record, written by Mike Scott and performed by Apple, will appear on the forthcoming Waterboys concept album Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, out April 4. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025 For this concept album Tesfaye recruits his actual neighbor Jim Carrey, who stands in as a meditative disc jockey broadcasting commercials for the afterlife. Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for concept album

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