David Kitt - The Big Romance

One man armed with an acoustic guitar and a minidsc player in a Dublin bedsit – hardly the most obvious place to kick things off but David Kitt emerged from the bedsit (and from behind the cloak of Irish music’s best kept secret) with something of classic first full LP in 2001. Kitt’s fragile vocals and the carefully constructed beats created a work of great intimacy. The simplicity of the sounds on the record is what catches the ear and there’s not a note wasted across the 10 heartfelt tracks. (Eamonn Halpin)