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The concept album may be one that sits with highly prized satisfaction in the realms of Progressive Rock and even in the hearts of some of its heavier cousins and the beautifully placed arrangements that Classical holds without alluding to the term, yet in the hands of the imaginative and the bold, it can be just as sublime, just as terrifyingly simple to achieve the desired effect. For the Mono Sideboards, The Pains of Being Frank Lamb is a concept that all can identify with and can empathise totally.