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About David Kitt
David Kitt's debut release, Small Moments, was recorded and mixed in his bedroom, and was released in August 2000. Small Moments was followed up less than a year later with The Big Romance, in May 2001. This album achieved double platinum sales in Ireland, strong reviews and remains Kitt's best-known work. The reviews drew attention to Kitt's creation of a quiet, intimate atmosphere with music technologies more typically associated with dance music. British magazine NME wrote: "his music is delicately innovative, with electronica and skewed beats skipping through the sparse, home-recorded lullabies ‘Song From Hope St (Brooklyn, NY)’, ‘Private Dance’ and ‘Step Outside In The Morning Light’."
Following this, Kitt's 2003 third album, Square 1, went straight to number one in Ireland and remained in that position for three weeks. Despite this success, the album failed to make the same impact in the UK, due in a large part to the lack of promotion by then label Universal. In October 2005, Kitt released The Black and Red Notebook, a collection of covers, on Rough Trade Records. This was less well-received than his earlier work.
His next album of original material, Not Fade Away, was produced by Kitt and Karl Odlum and was issued on 30 October 2006. Kitt also released a special limited CD, Misfits Volume 1, in 2007, the first instalment in a series featuring rare and unreleased tracks which did not make his official album releases. In late September 2008, Kitt announced the title of his new album, The Nightsaver, and began promoting it by supporting Tindersticks on their Irish gigs and subsequent European tour in early 2009. The album, which was recorded, mixed and produced largely at home by Kitt with additional work by Odlum, was released on 27 March 2009 on Kitt's own Gold Spillin' Records in Ireland and as a download from his official website. In 2010 he toured with Tindersticks as a full member of the band.
David Kitt also makes music with New Jackson, Garies(with Lumigraph), The Lock-In(with Tim Wheeler and Conor Creaney) and started Awayday, a label for his more experimental material.
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David Kitt - Still Don’t Know
David Kitt - You Know What I Want To Know
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