New Jackson: Oops!... Pop (Vinyl LP)

New Jackson marks his long awaited follow-up to 2017’s From Night To Night with its successor Oops!... Pop for long-time collaborators Permanent Vacation. Includes The Stone Roses ‘I Wanna Be Adored" reimagined as a lost kraut-pop robo song. A concise triumph in techno pop, its 9 tracks elevate his signature electronic sounds into anthemic new heights.

David Kitt is a prolific sonic polymath who’s enjoyed a colourful career making whatever he likes. While releasing music under a vast array of aliases and collaborations for close to two and a half decades, New Jackson has remained his irregular home since 2011 for when ‘at one with the machines’. It offers a kaleidoscopic window into his love of dance music, and on his debut album under the alias From Night To Night (released in 2017 on Dublin’s All City label) he unfurled his singular vision; a dilated suite of nocturnal soul coaxed from his beloved electronic equipment with songwriter’s nous, sonically etched as blunted whispers coalesced from the dusky billows of Dublin bay.

Further EPs and singles followed, alongside a beloved live show he toured globally, plus detours with his critically-lauded Garies duo (with Lumigraph) and a David Kitt solo album. In the time since his New Jackson debut, he’s slowly distilled his studio methodology to help mine the true core of his musical self. Within this experimentation, he has stumbled upon the bounty that is Oops!... Pop, his most direct and euphoric body of work to date.

Recorded across the span of five years and three different countries, Kitt has managed to transform his beloved alias into a leaner beast, tightening the screws around arrangements and songwriting to inspire an album sonically effortless in demeanour and spontaneously playful in structure and form. Aided by a stacked cast of collaborators including Rita Lynn, Donnacha Costello, Riche “Jape” Egan, Yenkee, Kean Kavanagh, Margie Jean Lewis, Meg Cronin and Fehdah, it bears the hallmarks of the studio albums of yesteryear in its dynamism and gratification while drawing on his rich bouquet of influences across a century of recorded music.

1. Si Si Si
   
2. Burnt Deep
   
3. Like
   
4. Out Of Reach
   
5. Day In Shock
6. The OK Hole
   
7. I Wanna Be Adored
   
8. Strobe
   
9. With The Night At Our Feet