Noun
an album whose recordings are unified by some theme (instrumental or lyrical or narrative or compositional)
Source: WordNetEveryone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album. Aimee Mann
'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. Gerard Way
I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place. Nile Rodgers
The new album, Hounds of Love, breaks new ground for Kate with the b-side. This is a story - The Ninth Wave - told in a series of songs, like a Pink Floyd concept album. Kate Bush