#concept-album

#concept-album

The 11-track collection continues the concept story of the two lovers first introduced on 2024's I Should Call Them. While the pair have made it through that first record's apocalyptic setting, they've emerged in a damaged world now overrun with AI - a reflection of our non-fictional existence. For all that darkness in theme, however, there's a spiritual beauty in Saleh's blend of R&B, various folk traditions, and indie pop.

The concept album is a response to the brutal murder of Breedlove's father and stepmother at the hands of his stepbrother. The frame—the first song and the last—of the album is about the murders and their aftermath. But this is not a true crime record.

After the world shrugged at The Knowledge in 2017, someone told Tilbrook: 'Nobody is interested in a Squeeze record. What matters is Squeeze's story.' That stayed with me, he says. So not only does Trixies contain a story—it's a concept-album-cum-musical about a fictional nightclub—but there's also a great tale around the album. It was written when Difford and Tilbrook were teenagers in 1974 but left unrecorded because they couldn't properly play the songs they had written.

There are also interludes and phone recordings littered throughout that posit God Save the Gun as the most indulgent of pursuits: the concept album. Shelton has always used rehabilitation and redemption as primary muses, considering whether the carceral or 12-step versions can truly offer any lasting change. In the past, he's done so as an invested outsider, writing about his brother's incarceration and his experience as an auditor at AA meetings.

Cyrus has described her new album 'Something Beautiful' as an attempt to medicate sick culture through music, with healing sound properties designed to impact body frequencies.