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Michigan has a proud punk history and throughout the last decade Child Bite has been keeping that odyssey alive. The state is famous for it’s shabby, rebellious past, birthing the MC5, The Stooges, Alice Cooper and The White Stripes. Child Bite is as equally progressive and original, sticking a more recent ‘fuck you’ finger in the face of Detroit’s industrial elite, where closures and lookouts continue to put pressure on the states blue-collar economy. It’s a city that inspires punk rock and Child Bite confronts the issues and proudly wear the tag of one of the hardest working punk bands in America.
Since we last featured them on EMJ (in 2008), raving about their excellent sophomore album Fantastic Gusts Of Blood, the band has released three split 7″s with This Moment In Black History, Big Bear and dd/mm/yyyy. Joyful Noise Recordings today announced the release of Child Bite’s third album titled The Living Breathing Organ Summer, out June 15. They also released the album’s first single ‘Odd Inn’.
Child Bite’s last album was ferocious and bursting with angular punk energy. The organ and guitars twisted themselves into a fury and chiselled out an aggressive attacking sound that shook and rebounded like a tennis ball full of carcinogenic mayonnaise. They adopted avant-garde time signatures and abrasive piercing guitar riffs to fire their point across and it resulted in one the best records out of Michigan in years. Following it up with something equally aggressive and original is going to be difficult, but the band has focused themselves and the first single displays a newly discovered power that’s more kinetic and rhythmic than anything on FGOB. There’s a hint of LA band HEALTH in the concrete sounding electronic intro and they seem to be syncing their guitar and vocal arrangements to create more of a melody. It’s seems like an obvious choice for a single, but it does break away from some the more spastic, jittery, disjointed elements of their past work. Hopefully when we get the whole album we’ll be able to assess just how much Child Bite has evolved.
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