Child Bite :: Gold Thriller :: Joyful Noise Recordings

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Child Bite
Gold Thriller

Catalog Number: jnr18
Release Date: 08/21/07

CD + MP3: $8

MP3: $5

Track List:

I Like Friends
Don't Do What Your Body Tells You To Do
Gudavia
Ape Along
Midnight at
The Muscle Chalet
Body Buddies

This is indie-pop for the undead: solid, consistently danceable rock with a brazenly psychotic, progressive edge. Child Bite's blend of sophisticated noise-pop and indie rock has enough time changes and feedback layering to please hipsters and experimental rockers alike, recalling bands like Brainiac, early Deerhoof, and Pere Ubu. The deceptively danceable music of this band only masks true experimental flair. As you would be able to tell from the sleeve of Mr. Bungle tattoos on Shawn Knight's arm, they've flirted with the darkest of experimental and progressive sounds, only to emerge with a very twisted take on (post?) indie rock.

The no-fluff New York style punk sensibility is combined with flourishes faintly reminiscent of acid-teas-era experimentation, and freaky, tweaked-out vocals. Alternating between 8-bit Nintendo sounds and expansively spacy and epic movements, the music of Child Bite will constantly challenge whichever musical genre you choose to describe them. Like a perfectly balanced amphetamine drunk, there is a sense of euphoria, urgency, and baseless paranoia blended with an overall sense of velocity, a hidden logic and inertia that is both satisfying and mildly frightening. This is the insidious dark side of hip pop music.

"Spastic rock not unlike Brainiac and Deerhoof. Fully frantic and at times trying, Gold Thriller is an energizing art-rock primer for the band's upcoming full-length."
Paste

"Like a glorious Tilt-A-Whirl, seven times faster and six times more flammable. Far removed from math rock or electroclash and much closer to the genre-defiance of Devo, with signature doo-wopping-human-Theremin vocals. Spindly, discordant guitars, capricious synths and a bass-drum section like a tie-dyed, rocket-propelled tank."
Real Detroit Weekly

"A restless, hiccuping mixture of studio improvisation, conventional indie rock, and jerking dance-punk that always looks for a crevice to needle between the electric guitar and frantic keyboards. Thriller is like a game of Operation with the tweezers permanently pushing against one of that cartoon patient's openings, and his red nose just exploded. Recommended."
Detour

"...the band has shown that it can fit right in with some of the leading post-punk acts of the past few years. Yeah, there's some humor but this isn't a simple joke band. Add to that recommendation that the disc's packaging is artful (inlaid cardboard, complete with pocket for liner notes) and you have a winner of a release"
Delusions Of Adequacy

"..monolithic riffs and playful whoops. The hooks are still there, but its subtlety takes this album to another place."
Paper Thin Walls

"Child Bite serves up tweaked out everything with a tasteful side of ballsy energy"
Verbicide

"Fuzzy bass and a vocalist who sounds like he is conjuring the spirit of David Byrne via the Blood Brothers. Loud, abrasive, and stirring."
Smother

"A compact and tightly produced set of songs. If they keep this up, it won't take these guys long to rise pretty quickly past a mass of similar, but usually much less interesting bands... one of the best I've heard in years from any dance-heavy indie rock band."
The New Scheme

"Located halfway between Brainiac and Deerhoof, "Gold Thriller" turns towards territories increasingly experimental, while maintaining an innate sense of melody and drawing trajectories to post-punk-dance."
Kronic (Finland)

"The line between post-punk experimentation and becoming inaccessible is a line that must be walked lightly. For the most part Child Bite don’t overstep this line completely...Gold Thriller ends up providing a memorable and creative entry into the world of dancy post-punk/indie music. Although even a few missteps on an EP can spell disaster for a band, Child Bite escape this by the sheer strength of the songs that do work. If the words "dancy" or "indie" scare you, Child Bite is still worth a listen anyways because of their dissonance and sense of humor."
PunkNews.Org

"The best thing about Detroit's Child Bite is that it sounds like Child Bite - the sound is the band's own, not a watered-down derivative of something else... the frantic but paced drumming, well placed fuzzy textures and upbeat attitude behind the whole project gives "Gold Thriller" marks above and beyond."
InTake

"...video game synth bleep like some hidden vampire club out of Castlevania, and a soft-stuttering percussion that all builds to a freakout worthy of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs."
Pop Matters

"Like a bunch of eclectic 10 yr olds hopped up Dymatap, (only with considerably more talent) Child Bite has produced a truly unique musical experience."
1340 Mag

"Child Bite has the energy of the loudest and rowdiest of punk bands and the vocal absurdity of mewithoutYou (in a less well implemented manner) or Of Montreal."
ReGen Magazine

"Every so often a band comes around that I just... really don't know what to say about. Believe me, this is rare. So, in a way, I kind of admire Child Bite. Not because I like "Gold Thriller" in the least, just because... wow. Just when you think you've heard it all (or close to "it all"), someone decides to squawk through your speakers in a new and exciting way. You know, if "exciting" actually meant "unnerving"."
Wonkavision Magazine

"...their infusing of angular dance punk with just the right amount of anti-structured and lightning-charged mania sets them well apart from the pack...Gold Thriller lives up to its title and will hopefully prove to be representative of more excellent songs to come."
Ink 19

"..they have succedded in producing a superior album. With thoughts of mid-ninties hardcore, but with todays technologies, blips, and ADD, mixed with experimental flare and surprisingly dancable songs, at least foot pounding..come on, and an energy that seems to be lacking in some facets of modern music, Gold Thriller succeeds to TPATS."
The Perm And The Scullet

"...sounds like the Polysics if the guitar was replaced by a Casio and the band by demented robots."
Read Junk

"It's 20 minutes of mischievous disco post punk. And while bands like the Rapture and Beep Beep kind of trail off at times, Child Bite stays loud and angular throughout the entire album. Quirky keyboards mingle with fuzzy bass lines and strange time signatures, and the whole fiasco is headed up by a sharp, erratic voice."
Prick Magazine / Evil Needles

"Following on their impressive performance on the split with Stationary Odyssey, Detroit's Child Bite are back with a noisy technical indie dance punk rock splitting out in every direction with Shawn Knight's 31G vocals spewing on this seven-song offering. In songs such as the moving opener "Like Friends," the uber-fuzzed bass lead on "Gudavia," and the terrific riff-centric "Ape Along," Child Bite establish themselves as minimally local rock heroes if not on a crash-course with underground notoriety in the punk world. Given some predilections, Child Bite might be best served flashing across the country with some of those 31G folks."
Exoduster