"Nightsvaer"
(Gold spillin)
eight / ten
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DAVID KITT "Nightsvaer" (Gold spillin)
eight / ten |
David Kitt seems like a decent ol' mucker, an honest chap who wears his heart on his check-shirt sleeve. I met him once at a wedding in Kerry and we conversed about the genius and dignity evident in the back catalogue of 80's electro kingpin Egyptian Lover. Later on, I (drunkingly) knocked over one of the wedding band's microphones, causing a squeal of intense feedback piercing enough to make a grown man's head explode. But David Kitt stopped the feedback. Fair play, David - good man yourself.
The Nightsaver is Kitt's sixth LP, but it's the first to be released under the creative freedom of his own Gold Spillin' imprint. He's been on the cusp of delivering something brilliant that both the public and critics can applaud for years, but seems to always fire arrows slightly left and right of the bulls eye. This is an album that stands as the defined work of an individual; from writing, recording and producing it himself - all assembled and glued together in a small Dublin attic with the moon as his companion. And you can hear it in the music; the songs sounding more like personal sketches than some corporate project that requires the minimum one hit radio single.
It works - but it's best experienced in much the same conditions as it was made; late night bedroom listening with a cup of Barrys close by. The pace and progression within the album is bang on the money, capturing both the sleepless energy of the Italo disco-influenced opening tracks and winding down towards the end with more hushed, placid sounds.
Sometimes, the dominant singer-songwriter tendencies kind of leave me wishing Kitt would fully embrace a less structured approach to writing and just push the electronic boat out of safety's view. But the future is bright and David Kitt seems like someone who now just wants to make the music he wants to make, and that's okay by me.
John Lillis
www.myspace.com/davidkitt
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