How to Use concept album in a Sentence

concept album

noun

• Willy, who wrote or co-wrote every song, sees it as a concept album.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2024
• And then there are two songs that weren’t in there, brought in from David’s concept album.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
• 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 concept album is a byproduct of the larger goal — to make the musical.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• This isn't the first time Miranda has used the notion of a concept album to frame his work.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• Some of the songs have a theatrical feel, as if written for a concept album or a musical.
  — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 21 Aug. 2023
• The first couple of tracks seem to be headed toward a concept album in that direction.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
• The cast list for the album and future plans for the project, after the concept album’s release, have not yet been announced.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2024
• 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
• But generally speaking, did this seem like a concept album to you that was being captured?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 June 2026
• 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 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
• 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 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
• That grisly tale might seem an unlikely theme upon which to build a concept album, but Seth Avett saw something deeper in the story’s themes.
  — Bill Kopp, SPIN, 25 Nov. 2024
• The band released its fourth studio record in 2020, a concept album called Tales from Yellowstone.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• Bodhiria was a complex, labyrinthine concept album about toxic love that melded flamenco, joropo, and trap beats, all of it centered on Judeline’s voice.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
• Warriors is a concept album, inspired by the 1979 action film The Warriors.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
• Here Lies Love was previously released as a concept album in 2010.
  — Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
• The lyric serves as a thesis statement of sorts for a concept album that is as much an immersive literary experience as an exercise in listening.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Lekman will release a full-length concept album of the same name in September, featuring the wedding songs from the novel along with others that describe the story.
  — Katy Hershberger august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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 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
• The concept album dabbled in Latin and world music sounds and prompted her tour of smaller venues that drew criticism from fans both for a lack of earlier hits injected into the show and late start times.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
• The track leads his upcoming concept album, out October 17, which explores each song from the perspective of a different object at an estate sale.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
• 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