A Different Kind of Weather

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A Different Kind of Weather
A Different Kind Of Weather.(The Dream Academy album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by
The Dream Academy
Released15 June 1990
Recorded1990
Genre Rock
Length43:13
Label Reprise (US) [1]
Blanco y Negro (UK)
Producer David Gilmour (main) [2]
The Dream Academy chronology
Remembrance Days
(1987)		A Different Kind of Weather
(1990)		 Somewhere in the Sun... Best of the Dream Academy
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Orlando Sentinel Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Ottawa Citizen Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]

A Different Kind of Weather is the third and final studio album by the English band the Dream Academy. [6] [7] It was released on 15 June 1990 by Reprise and Blanco y Negro Records. The album saw the return of David Gilmour as the main producer, six years after he had produced their debut album.

Contents

The album failed to enter the charts, despite the band performing their first and only tour of the United Kingdom to promote its release, in 1991.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "[Kate] St. John’s oboe and soprano sax is an effective antidote to blandness, but the languid material is almost characterless, relegating the album to handsomely accomplished ambience for the old at heart." [8] The Globe and Mail wrote that the album "harks back to the days of the British progressives without specifically copying any one band." [9]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Love" John Lennon 3:43
2."Mercy Killing"Laird-Clowes, Gabriel4:44
3."Lucy September"Laird-Clowes, Gabriel3:06
4."Gaby Says"Laird-Clowes, Gabriel5:04
5."Waterloo"Laird-Clowes, Gabriel5:04
6."Twelve-eight Angel"Laird-Clowes, Gilmour4:19
7."St. Valentine's Day"Laird-Clowes, Gabriel2:45
8."It'll Never Happen Again" Tim Hardin 3:33
9."Forest Fire"Laird-Clowes, Gabriel4:15
10."Lowlands"Laird-Clowes, Gabriel3:47
11."Not for Second Prize"Laird-Clowes2:53

Singles from the album

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References

  1. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 211.
  2. 1 2 Erskine, Evelyn (25 January 1991). "The Dream Academy A Different Kind Of Weather". Ottawa Citizen: D6.
  3. ↑ "A Different Kind of Weather Info". AllMusic . Retrieved 29 April 2011.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 121.
  5. ↑ Smith, David (15 February 1991). "DREAM ACADEMY". Orlando Sentinel: 23.
  6. ↑ "The Dream Academy | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ Semon, Craig (3 February 1991). "Dream Academy offers up more neo-psychedelia". Telegram & Gazette: 10.
  8. ↑ "Dream Academy". Trouser Press. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  9. ↑ Niester, Alan (4 March 1991). "RECORDINGS OF NOTE ROCK A DIFFERENT KIND OF WEATHER The Dream Academy". The Globe and Mail: C3.


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