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An alleged concept about a man making love with a woman, getting disappointed because of her incestuous relationship with her brother and committing suicide by drowning, 2002's Oceanic sounds just as minimal as their debut, but less sledgehammer-like and with more mournful pentatonic riffing ("The Beginning of the End", "Hym"), climatic Ambient codas ("Weight") and some major-key stuff ("From Sinking"). With none of the cerebral tempo changes and environmentalist elitism of their followers (The Ocean Collective), the album actually sounds "accessible", despite its focus on monolith breakdowns.

Highlights: "The Beginning and the End", "Weight", "From Sinking".