Album Review: The Settlement - Stand In The Middle

The fine line between a punishing and a demanding tour schedule has been carefully navigated by Victorian five-piece The Settlement to the dusty benefit of this first album proper.

Adrian Calvano's lyric book reads like a Guinness stained compendium of short stories, from the Commitments-style knees-up machismo of She Feels Like Home to the fiddle 'n' Hammond organ walloping A Hotel In Brunswick and the pitiful tale of a broken battler in Ode To Joe. Here, The Settlement successfully dump tired country music tropes to welcome everyone in for a drink.