This is what Oceans is about; the Chicago quintet deliver sweeping post-rock epics without resorting to lazy devices like lyrics to punch you in the sternum. Their music carries a ton of information without saying many things out loud. The result: an hour of tension and release that forces listeners to pay attention while encouraging them to drift off. In other words, it’s the manipulation of our human ability to read things other than spoken language and it is completely bad ass. - Citizen Dick


Every once in awhile, an album comes along that acts in a sense as an open-ended soundtrack to a movie that will play in the listener's head. Nothing Collapses is one such album. In a sense the music is in the background, but not in a passively. It's twisting, turning rhythms and layered sound paints a vivid scene with both a clear point and endless possibility. What's best is that Oceans trusts its listeners to do their part, to participate in something great, to not just listen, but to act (at least on the stage of their own minds). - Rock And Roll And Meandering Nonsense