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PRESS

"Highly original outside of the mainstream music. Loud, irreverent post-punk noise that clangs with the ringing bells of the doom of easy-to-define music genres."
Smother

"[Stationary Odyssey] go for many and varied styles, the consistent characteristic being shiftiness: instruments circling around or sliding off from each other or songs developing one mood and then breaking into another."
Paper Thin Walls

"On this offering, Stationary Odyssey take things a bit less instrumentally than their last record (as in, there are vocals) - which means experimental noise-rock is the name of the game. Child Bite is more on the playful end of matters with their two contributions; "Beef Up" is a spazzy and melodic freak-rock number and the hook-y "Do The Physical" is likely the catchiest song on this disc. Expect chant-along half-sung/half-spoken choruses combined with spasmodic, stuttery song structures. Hooray! At eight bucks Physical Education ain't the cheapest, but its metal case may make it the nicest lookin' dame in your record collection."
Indieville

"A bizarre, upbeat rock'n'roll rave-up... All things considered, Physical Education is a weird, relatively intriguing listen. That, and it should definitely alter the perceptions of people."
PunkNews.Org

"You get two bands playing four songs that sound like some kind of post indie something mixed with a rusty swingset. I know Stationary Odyssey for their eclectic instrumentals, but here they adopt a singer who brings an older Modest Mouse screech pop vibe to their already twang-tastic outside the box jams. Child Bite is new to me and their "Do The Physical" is like a post-hardcore buzz saw game show theme song ala Guy Picciotto fronted Fugazi. It's hard to say a lot about four songs without piling on the B.S. and bombast, so to sum things up--I like this one."
Evil Needles

"Detroit's Child Bite and Indiana's Stationary Odyssey team up with two alternated songs each. Both bands are considered noise-rock, but they're different from the norm and different from each other. They're both more structured and less aggressive than other noisemakers; in fact, Stationary Odyssey have been described as "easy listening noise," which is a neat moniker, and have a loungey feel that remind me of Faith No More. Child Bite are spazzy art rock with various effects, sorta like a Japanese-noise version of Mr. Bungle."
Read Junk

"I interviewed Aaron Tanner from Stationary Odyssey at length and over countless shots of cheap whiskey about the new split EP with Detroit- based freaky rock dudes Child Bite. We talked about the intricacies of the songwriting and recording process, the myriad attitudes artists hold toward arrangements, melodies and lyricism. Tanner and I applied a lot of these thoughts to Physical Education and after much contemplation we both concluded that the best way to describe the four-song disc is 'What the f*ck is this?' 5 out of 5"
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