By: Charlie Butler
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 01/04/2016
Label: Housecore
Records
Child
Bite create an idiosyncratic racket, a chaotic collision of off-kilter punk,
the weirder end of 80’s hardcore and rumbling post-punk. “Negative Noise” is an invigorating blast of
dissonance, a blend of familiar influences twisted into their warped vision. Shawn Knight’s hyperactive drawl makes a
compelling foil to the band’s manic yet inventive playing, as his Jello Biafra
via Mike Watt drawl varies in intensity to match the song’s twists and turns.
“Negative Noise” track listing:
1). Death Before Dementia
2). Paralytic Phantasm
3). Euphoria Saturation Point
4). Born a Hog
5). Video Blood
6). Apex of Anxiety
7). Vermin Mentality
8). Beyond the Dirt
9). The Great Ego Flood
10). Into the Disease
11). Heretic Generation
12). Feed Me Septic Dreams
2). Paralytic Phantasm
3). Euphoria Saturation Point
4). Born a Hog
5). Video Blood
6). Apex of Anxiety
7). Vermin Mentality
8). Beyond the Dirt
9). The Great Ego Flood
10). Into the Disease
11). Heretic Generation
12). Feed Me Septic Dreams
The Review:
Child Bite create an idiosyncratic
racket, a chaotic collision of off-kilter punk, the weirder end of 80’s
hardcore and rumbling post-punk. The Detroit
The band cover a lot of ground stylistically
over the course of “Negative Noise”
but their identity maintains strong and coherent throughout. For every
breakneck burst of damaged rock like “Death
Before Dementia”, “Born A Hog”
and “Vermin Mentality” there are
voyages into stranger territory like “Paralytic
Phantasm” and “Beyond The Dirt”.
The spooked-out reverb soaked guitars of the former are taken to extremes with
the huge wall of sound and a hypnotic bass line that begins the latter, seven
minutes of menacing riffs and anxious vocals that make for the album’s
highlight.
“Video
Blood” sees the band at their most angular, sharp chiming guitar lines
building to keening screeching wails while the stop/start riffs of “Euphoria Saturation Point” sees them at
their most restless. Strong undercurrents of noise rock bubble to the surface
periodically, most noticeable during the intro of “Apex of Anxiety” which exudes the shambolic belligerence of Pissed Jeans
and the churning riff that heralds the arrival of “Heretic Generation”. Shawn Knight’s hyperactive drawl makes a
compelling foil to the band’s manic yet inventive playing, as his Jello Biafra
via Mike
Watt drawl varies in intensity to match the song’s
twists and turns.
“Negative
Noise” is an invigorating blast of dissonance, a blend of familiar
influences twisted into Child Bite’s warped vision of noisy punk rock.
