| China Gate | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Cul de Sac |
| Cover: | Cul de Sac - China Gate.jpg |
| 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 |
| Prev Title: | I Don't Want to Go to Bed |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | The Epiphany of Glenn Jones |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
China Gate is an album by Cul de Sac, released in 1996.[2] [3] The album incorporated elements of surf rock.[4]
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."[5] Rolling Stone praised "the deft, pointillist strokes with which guitarist Glenn Jones dots the margins of his spare compositions."[6]
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."[7]