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concept album

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  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.”
    • […] 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.

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