★★★★★
Call it mad scientist-core. Detroit quartet Child Bite has been making distinct, sense-assaulting art-rock for nearly a decade now, singer Shawn Knight muttering angry gibberish over bubbling beakers, an undercurrent of glitched, evil electronic noise coming from somewhere in the dungeon. On sixth LP
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-10-24
★★★★★
Child Bite does something different; it sounds like other bands, but not every other band. This is a fine distinction. Child Bite's sound is composed of a different set of references than the ones typically in play right now. There's no folk, no beach dreaminess, no symphonic pop, nothing electronic or synthesized. Right off the bat, this difference makes it sound fresher. Child Bite plays layered music that is somehow still relatively simple...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Child Bite's Shawn Knight has a voice of scarcely checked catastrophe. Space time continuums threaten to stretch and rift with every theatrically enunciated syllable. He sounds sort of like The B-52s Fred Schneider on mescaline, shirtless, in a Vegas fountain, belting out an elegy to Marquis de Sade...
- www.adequacy.net
2010-07-21
★★★★★
Although Child Bite might describe its music as "dance-punk," the cuts on Gold Thriller share more in common with acts like The Stnnng and Ten Grand than that phrase would lead you to believe. This isn't much like The Faint, after all, or !!! - bands that have appropriated that tag. Child Bite actually rocks more than it shimmies. Right from the start you can tell that these guys don't take themselves too seriously even if they do take their sound seriously...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
It would be seemingly easy for Child Bite to get lost amongst the infinite indie rock bands clogging the soundwaves these days, but somehow 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.The group's main method of attack involves vocals spat through sneers, bass, and drums lumbering along like immovable objects and chasing skittish guitar and synth leads, but it ends up being much more than that...
- www.ink19.com
2009-07-20
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