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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 " Proudman is an extremely musical drummer who can hold down the fort while taking off on flights of fancy with the liquidly propulsive 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."