DAN SULTAN – GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN

“Dare I say it / You have won my heart”.  Dan Sultan and friends are in no rush. Picking and choosing when to play live (in venues like the Famous Spiegeltent) their 2006 debut Homemade Biscuits was a knock-out. So three years on Get Out While You Can fits comfortably under the “much anticipated” tag. Choosing to croon his way in via some Goddess Love, and following it with the Archie Roach inspired Sorrowbound, the album is off to a low-key yet insidious start. The tempo of the album remain curious, not really kicking into fifth gear and letting the guitars and horns loose until the second half with Crazy. But then the gloves really come off and the 50s rocker Fear of Flying is pure Eddie Corchran, while the album closer Cadillac and a Mustang revives the blue soul of Stax Records via Fitzroy. Sultan and his right hand man Scott Wilson (who writes or co-writes almost all the songs) are hitting their groove, and when the Bran Nue Dae hits screens Dan Sultan will be a man in demand. Get in first.

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