"the irish times" said of "clocks", "feeney's stately pomp and charged intimacy that sums up clocks best: both warm and weird, but incontestably individual". hot press proclaimed that feeney's "clocks" was a "superb third album from ireland's national treasure". the "sunday business post" said that, "clocks is the best of her hugely impressive body of work. evocative, full with subtly enticing key changes and telling story after story, this is sparse, reverent and varied stuff, but still accessible enough to fall under the genre heading of pop. feeney has elements of trad, or at least thoughtful traditionalism, in her sound and lyrics: opener dear john offers a moving take of her grandparents' simple courtship. at its best, clocks is nearly flawless". "clocks" was crowd-funded by 204 funders on irish website fundit and it is currently so far the most successful music project on the website.