ISIS Oceanic 2xLP (2014 Re-issue) avant sludge metal neurosis old man gloom NEW
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ISIS Oceanic (2014 Re-issue) 2 x LP
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Fast on the heels of those other Isis reissues that just came out at the end of last year, the band's 2002 full-length Oceanic has also been reissued, newly re-mastered for vinyl for this revised 2014 edition, and housed in a heavyweight case-wrapped gatefold jacket with printed reverse-board stock and printed inner sleeves; the album has never looked better.
With all of the pale imitators that sprung weedlike around this band's discography in the years since, it's sometimes surprising how original Isis's music still sounds when you return to it. Isis's second album saw the beginnings of their gradual shift away from the punishing, industrial-tinged sludge and chiseled riffage of Celestial, towards the more melodically nuanced sound that they would essentially perfect with Panopticon. The sound of Oceanic resides in this middle territory, still powered by the relentless drive and monstrous contrapuntal chug of the guitars, the mesmeric sludgy dirges strafed with frontman Aaron Turner's gravelly scream, but right from the opener "The Beginning And The End", Isis pair the weighted riffage with passages of jangling math-rock and moody melody that made for a much more accessible listen. It's a strong album all the way through, following a vague narrative about spurned love and suicide set against a backdrop of elementary forces, with an epically gloomy atmosphere maintained over the course of all nine of these songs. The band's metalcore roots merge fluidly with their proggier approach to the arrangements, and the cinematic qualities of bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor echo more strongly throughout Oceanic than anything the band has done prior. Angular staccato riffs emerge from swirls of electronic drone, and these riffs stretch out, taking minutes to build and crest and wash over you with their majestic downtuned hooks, or dissipate into vast expanses of shimmering twangy gorgeousness lit by a dead desert sun; other songs decay into swells of lush kosmische fog, or bloom into haunting cetaceous noisescapes. And "Weight" still remains one of the band's finest moments, a slow burn through clockwork guitars and moody jangle, laced with the airy vocals of Maria Christopher from Boston avant rockers 27, building into one of the most haunting slabs of sludge-pop ever. It's here that Isis really started to shake off the resemblances to their influences (Godflesh, Neurosis, Godspeed) and come into their own distinct sound, and Oceanic remains one of the best albums of its kind, and certainly one of the most important records in Isis's catalog - no fan of atmospheric metal should go without hearing this. © CRUCIAL BLAST
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