China Gate (album)

China Gate is an album by Cul de Sac, released in 1996. The album incorporated elements of surf rock.

Critical reception
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." Rolling Stone praised "the deft, pointillist strokes with which guitarist Glenn Jones dots the margins of his spare compositions."

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."

Personnel

 * Cul de Sac
 * Robin Amos – synthesizers, sampler, vocals
 * Chris Fujiwara – bass guitar
 * Glenn Jones – guitar
 * Jon Proudman – drums, vocals
 * Production and additional personnel
 * Cul de Sac – production
 * Nancy Given – design
 * Bill Salkin – engineering
 * Walter Stickle – engineering
 * Jon Williams – production, engineering