A Different Kind of Weather

A Different Kind of Weather is the third and final studio album by the English band the Dream Academy.^[7][8] 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.

A Different Kind of Weather
Studio album by The Dream Academy
Released	15 June 1990
Recorded	1990
Genre	Rock
Length	43:13
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
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Orlando Sentinel	[5]
Ottawa Citizen	[2]
Record Mirror	6/10[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[1]

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."^[9] The Globe and Mail wrote that the album "harks back to the days of the British progressives without specifically copying any one band."^[10]

Track listing

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

Singles from the album

• "Love"
• "Angel of Mercy" ("Twelve-eight Angel")