Kitty Empire 

Dan Sartain: Dan Sartain Lives

Retro rocker Dan Sartain's third outing in five years is a pleasingly crunchy affair with plenty of early 60s swagger, writes Kitty Empire
  
  


Retro rock'n'roll is such a constantly self-renewing subculture that not even our accelerated modernity can wither it. One of its more ardent latter-day proselytisers, Dan Sartain, may only be in his mid-20s, but it is perennially 1961 on the three albums has released since 2005. It's plain to see why Jack White put the pithy, witty "Bohemian Grove" single - a 60s beat nugget - out on his Third Man label; "Atheist Funeral" provides more bone-dry posturing. You can't fault Sartain's swing and crunch, or the sound of valves warming up at the all-analogue purists' studio, Toe Rag. But it is a shame that Sartain's considerable smarts don't quite last the full 13 tracks.

 

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