According to the album's producer, Tarik "Cilvaringz" Azzougarh, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is a conceptual record that evokes Wu-Tang's original, mid-90s sound.
The Lift album was the work of a mad genius, a conceptual record about Texas being the rock of the world when the apocalypse comes; Elbow's was personal, deeply moving and hopeful.
MH: Really, when we did the Zombie EP last year, there's so much fun stuff you can do with a conceptual record like that.
Patitucci, an artist and musician, started the conceptual record label Data Garden in 2011 as a place to release his ambient electronic music.
The new EP from Perth's Tourist Kid does just this: yes, it's a conceptual record focused on "cultivating spacial awareness" but it's also a human expression of feelings, a rich collection of frozen emotions.
However, he gives MCs he works with room to write lyrics without too much instruction unless it is a specifically conceptual record, as noted by Bishop Lamont in the book How to Rap.
This time around, because we had a more concrete concept going into it, and because we wanted to work even more as a single unit " Dreyer and the rest of La Dispute had expressed interest in writing a conceptual record, but with ambiguity so it would not limit the listener's experience.
The Icelandic musician's ninth studio LP broke a three-album run of conceptual, esoteric records centred around nature, politics and technology.
In conceptual art terms, Recording in Progress is positively Warholian in its elevation of the quotidian.
Most of the Roma references in "When I Was Older" are more conceptual, though; Eilish recorded the song with her older brother, Finneas O'Connell, Billboard reports, with the siblings saying in a statement, "When we were composing the song, we wanted to write from within the narrative of the movie and the scenes that struck us the most from it.
