Clare People Interactive

Sound To Light
Channel One
7/10

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Things are really starting to get tasty. It really isn’t that long that a list of quality Irish electronic artists could have been compiled on the back of a matchbox, using a big-nibbed felt tip pen – and you’d probably still have space for a list of great Irish tap dancers.
No longer however, and such list would require at least 20 matchboxes to complete. But where does Sound to Light, the debut album from Dublin four-piece Channel One, fall into this list? Somewhere near the top I would think.
This is a very decent album – a record of confidence and bravery. The first two track – the anthemic ‘Soubresant’ and ‘A Thousand Cuts’ – last more the 12 minutes between them. Twelve minutes, opening an album of largely instrumental music – wont everyone fall asleep?
Surprising you wont fall asleep, and that, I suppose is a tribute to the record. Not that it keeps you awake per say but that in can be non-compromising and at the same time engage with the listener in a real and immediate way.
Andrew Hamilton