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concept album

concept album noun: an album of music where the content follows an overall theme or narrative.

Noun

concept album (plural concept albums)

  1. An album of music where the content follows an overall theme or narrative.
    • Rather than merely a collection of unrelated songs, their new LP (which was nine months in the making) is a concept album, “an integrated and ethereal experience with a cosmic quality.”1967 December 9, “New Stones LP ‘Landmark’”, in Record World, →ISSN, page 22
    • […] while the consistent use of lengthy forms such as the programmatic song cycle of the concept album and the multimovement suite underscores the hippies' new, drug-induced conception of time.1996, Edward Macan, Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture, page 13

concept album meaning in Bengali, Malay, Indonesian and Persian

concept album in Bengali

album
ধারণা অ্যালবাম dharona êlbam

concept album in Malay

album
album konsep

concept album in Indonesian

album
album konsep

concept album in Persian

album
آلبوم مفهومی âlbum mafhumi
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concept album in Vietnamese
album chủ đề

Examples of concept album in a sentence

  • Moore relates the concept album to the ideals of progressive rock in the 1970s, building on Sgt.2010, Marianne Tatom Letts, Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album, page 19:
  • Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’ as an example of a concept album.2023, Eric Wolfson, Fifty Years of the Concept Album in Popular Music: From The Beatles to Beyoncé, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 2:

Forms of concept album

pluralconcept albums

Origin of concept album

First applied to the albums Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Their Satanic Majesties Request, both released in 1967.

Questions about concept album

What does concept album mean?
Concept album means an album of music where the content follows an overall theme or narrative.
What is concept album in Bengali?
Concept album in Bengali is ধারণা অ্যালবাম (dharona êlbam). See Concept album meaning in Bengali.
How do you use concept album in a sentence?
Moore relates the concept album to the ideals of progressive rock in the 1970s, building on Sgt.
What part of speech is concept album?
Concept album is a noun.
What is the plural of concept album?
The plural of concept album is concept albums.

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