July Skies fourth album The Weather Clock comes across as an album that isn’t designed for any particular time. Instead it’s a slow flowing compendium of tracks that can take you anywhere your mind wants to go. Antony Harding and Co. stick to basics of guitar, piano and vocals of Grandmothers to form quite the picturesque album. It's not a sound that you're going to necessarily fill your friends in on, but nor is it to be disregarded. The album fits a spot in my record collection that hasn’t been dusted down since the early days of Chillout Euphoria (I was young and foolish, please forgive me...).However, many of the tracks blend into each other and sound too similar, and such, with the chiming of guitar and flutters of distant speech, they seemed to be produced to do so; preventing both distinction or breaking of thought patterns. Patterns that will, no doubt, arise if you have nothing but a snug chair, time on your hands and tracks such as ‘Girl On The Hill’. Its pondering pace and angelic strum paints a picture in your mind of somewhere heavenly. The lull of lyrics "that’s where I’d rather be”¦with you”¦today " prompt further such thoughts. Everyone knows where they would rather be, unless of course you're there when you're listening to the album.The overall sound is something you would associate with travel, soundtrack music to a deep moment in a film or someone lost in an unknown land. I think it comes down to the timing of when you put it on. For me it came across too bland anytime before 8pm, my original review portraying it along those lines. But having a second listen late in the day, when my eyes were half shutting and I was pondering so, it left me drifting away into my own, odd, little world and coming out the other side rather admiring what July Skies have made. 71% Links July Skies [official site ] [myspace ]