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With his album The Big Romance in 2001, David Kitt accelerated to fame with double-platinum gusto, filling out large venues and conducting euphoric festival highlights.

Touring Britain and Europe he graced the stage with record collection heroes such as Television and Yo la Tengo, befriended tourmates Arab Strap and Tindersticks, and discovered during a crazy weekend at Glastonbury that The Magic Numbers were his biggest fans. He was even invited by David Bowie to perform at the Meltdown Festival he curated in 2002 at the Royal Festival Hall.

David Kitt's sixth lp, The Nightsaver, is the result of two years of late-night experimentation, 80-hour weeks, caught in the reverie of writing and recording in a home studio at the top of a winding staircase somewhere along Dublin's grand canal. Not since his debut album, the quietly magnetic small moments (rough trade), back in 2000, has his music flowed so freely. It is as natural sounding an album you're likely to hear in 2009,  'Leagues O'Toole', 2009.

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