Recorded at the Retreat Studio, Ovingdean, mixed by Mark Edwards (who also contributes synth and tubular bells to a brace of tracks) and mastered by Geoff Gascoyne, There Will Be Time presents a consummate collection of songs. The album opener sees the sextet dip imaginatively into the Great American Songbook with a bracing 6/4 reboot of Cole Porter's ‘Night and Day’. The six songs which follow all feature lyrics by Ryall, a treat in itself – especially so when she pens the most virtuosic vocalese imaginable based on the circuitous organ solo in ‘Mixed Message’, the lead-off track from the Larry Goldings Trio's 2000 album, As One (“He'll talk about all his trials and tribulations, thinking that I'm being sincere and sympathetic, when I'm really just wondering what he's like in bed”). Two songs included on last year's excellent Anöna Trio release also make a welcome appearance here – Julian Nicholas's captivating, elegiac ‘One January Morning’, plus another stunning take on Carla Bley's ‘Lawns’, taken at the most deliciously slow tempo imaginable, in which you really get to hear the beauty of Ryall's timbre, her impeccable intonation, and her sensitive shaping of the melodic line. The dramatic, block-like contrasts of ‘Insomnia’, the light-as-air swing of ‘There Will Be Time’ and the apposite lyrics which Ryall appends to Bobby Wellins' ‘CUCB’ also score highly in terms of generating mood and dramatic tension.