China Gate (album)
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| China Gate | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 21, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | August 1995 at Rainfarm Studios, North Reading, Massachusetts | |||
| Genre | Post-rock, space rock | |||
| Length | 64:28 | |||
| Label | Flying Nun/Thirsty Ear[1] | |||
| Producer | Cul de Sac, Jon Williams | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Alternative Press | [3] |
China Gate is an album by Cul de Sac, released in 1996.[4][5] The album incorporated elements of surf rock.[6]
Trouser Press wrote that "[Jon] Proudman is an extremely musical drummer who can hold down the fort while taking off on flights of fancy with the liquidly propulsive [Chris] Fujiwara."[7] Rolling Stone praised "the deft, pointillist strokes with which guitarist Glenn Jones dots the margins of his spare compositions."[8]
Paste listed the album as one of the "50 Best Post-Rock Albums", writing that it "set the bar for the group's expansive experimentalism, allowing them to work Can-like rhythms, Eastern-influenced melodies, flickering electronics, and plenty of noise into their deconstructions of the rock idiom."[9]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "China Gate" | Harold Adamson, Victor Young | 1:11 |
| 2. | "Sakhalin" | Glenn Jones | 5:49 |
| 3. | "Nepenthe" | Glenn Jones | 8:47 |
| 4. | "Doldrums" | Glenn Jones | 5:45 |
| 5. | "James Coburn" | Robin Amos, Chris Fujiwara, Glenn Jones, Jon Proudman | 6:30 |
| 6. | "Virgin Among Cannibals" | Robin Amos, Chris Fujiwara, Glenn Jones, Jon Proudman | 2:09 |
| 7. | "...His Teeth Got Lost in the Mattress..." | Glenn Jones | 3:06 |
| 8. | "Hemispheric Events Command" | Glenn Jones | 6:15 |
| 9. | "The Fourth Eye" | Glenn Jones | 11:36 |
| 10. | "The Colomber" | Glenn Jones | 6:16 |
| 11. | "China Gate" (reprise) | Harold Adamson, Victor Young | 0:31 |
| 12. | "Utopia Pkwy." | Glenn Jones | 6:51 |
