Cerulean (The Ocean Blue album)

The album was produced by Pat McCarthy and bandmembers David Schelzel and Rob Minnig. The Ocean Blue were more interested in producing an album that sounded of a piece rather than worrying about how well singles would do. The majority of the keyboard parts were played by Minnig. "The Planetarium Scene" alludes to a passage from the Book of Psalms. "Falling Through the Ice" is an instrumental. ==Critical reception==

The St. Petersburg Times opined, "Although it may be a botched attempt at moving in a more acoustic direction, Cerulean is a complete disaster, and unravels all the promise that the Ocean Blue originally showed." Dave Eggers, in The Daily Illini, said that the lyrics "are delicate, poetic and small-scaled." In 1999, the Portland Press Herald included the album on its list of the 90 "best CDs of the '90s that no one heard". In 2024, the Star Tribune noted that the music "fell in with the more mopey, lusher, prettier brand of pre-Nirvana alternative rock led by groups like the Cure, New Order, the Church and fellow Sire label mates Echo & the Bunnymen." ==Track listing==