Before the album dropped, before the tour was announced, before Australia had a chance to hear Gentleman in full, Budjerah Slabb walked down the aisle.

The 24-year-old Coodjinburra man of the Bundjalung nation and his high school sweetheart Sophie Moore were recently married at Pioneer Country, a fifth-generation cattle property on the Tweed Coast hinterland, in a ceremony shaped by the people they love most.

Budjerah's grandfather was celebrant, his family band played, his mother Mary worked with Sophie to create the invitations and place cards, and baked the wedding cake.

According to Vogue Australia, which held exclusive coverage of the wedding, the groom paired his custom Umi Nori suit and Saint Laurent shoes with an Akubra hat, completing the look with a camo brooch gifted from his grandmother.

Looking every part the gentleman, also the name of his debut album, Budjerah and Sophie's wedding was kept secret and intimate.

Gentleman, his long-awaited first album, is out now via Warner Music Australia. The record is four years in the making and produced by Grammy Award-winning Om'Mas Keith, whose credits span Frank Ocean and Jay-Z.

Across 11 tracks, it captures the stretch of road between who Budjerah was at 20 and who he is at 24, a Coodjinburra man from Fingal Head who was signed at 17, won an ARIA Breakthrough Artist award at 19, and has spent the years since collecting collaborations with Ed Sheeran and Kylie Minogue, a platinum single in Therapy, 60 million career streams, and legendary songwriter Dianne Warren, who wrote the album's closing track 'Even At My Worst'.

"Every song on this album holds a piece of me," Budjerah says of Gentleman. "I hope little Budjerah is proud."

To celebrate the release, Budjerah heads out on a national headline tour through October and November, taking in Melbourne, Anglesea, Sydney, the Gold Coast and Brisbane.

And when he takes the stage, audiences might just recognise the hat.

Budjerah fronted an Akubra campaign earlier this year, a partnership which grew from something real - childhood visits to his mother's family in Brewarrina where his uncles worked the land in wide-brimmed hats. He's already planning to take it on tour with him.

"I'll probably wear this hat on stage with my suit too, I think," he said during our recent interview, adjusting the brim of his Akubra.

"I've got a nice black suit. I think it'll go well."

The gentleman, it seems, has found his look.

Gentleman is out now, with tour dates and tickets available online.