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1998 studio album by Leila
Like Weather
Studio album by Leila
Released30 March 1998 (1998-03-30)
StudioLeila's home
Genre
Length48:15
LabelRephlex
ProducerLeila
Leila chronology
Like Weather
(1998) 		Courtesy of Choice
(2000)
Singles from Like Weather
  1. "Don't Fall Asleep"
    Released: 17 November 1997
  2. "Space, Love"
    Released: 9 February 1998
  3. "Feeling"
    Released: 20 July 1998
  4. "Underwaters (One for Keni)"
    Released: 1 December 2011

Like Weather is the debut studio album by English electronic musician Leila. It was released on 30 March 1998 by Rephlex Records.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Guardian
Muzik8/10
NME9/10
Uncut9/10

Reviewing Like Weather for AllMusic, John Bush noted the album's "tremendously eclectic" tone, which he said "is of an experimentalism far in advance of other electronic singer/songwriter acts out there."

At the end of 1998, NME named Like Weather the year's 10th best album. In 2015, it was placed at number six on Fact's list of the best trip hop albums of all time, with the magazine calling it "a hazy, underwater daydream of a record with half-heard soul, pop and chiming ice cream truck electronics swirling together in a soup of memory and emotion. Not quite trip-hop and not quite illbient, it certainly wasn't IDM either." Two years later, Fact listed Like Weather as one of the best albums of 1998, and Pitchfork ranked it as the 39th best IDM album of all time.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Something"1:29
2."Don't Fall Asleep"
  • L. Arab
  • Santucci
3:27
3."Underwaters (One for Keni)"L. Arab3:24
4."Feeling"
  • L. Arab
  • Donna Paul
4:40
5."Blue Grace"4:07
6."Space, Love"L. Arab4:57
7."Knew"
  • L. Arab
  • Santucci
1:18
8."Melodicore"L. Arab5:21
9."So Low...Amen"
  • L. Arab
  • Santucci
6:15
10."Misunderstood"
  • L. Arab
  • Paul
3:31
11."Piano-String"L. Arab2:33
12."Won't You Be My Baby, Baby"4:09
13."Away"
  • L. Arab
  • Santucci
3:04
Total length:48:15

Sample credits

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

  • Leila – production, mixing, recording
  • Ali Akbar – arrangement consultancy (track 6)
  • Roya Arab – vocals (track 5)
  • Richard D. James – post-production editing
  • Dan Lipman – alto flute (track 5)
  • Donna Paul – vocals (tracks 4, 10)
  • Luca Santucci – vocals (tracks 1, 2, 7, 9, 12, 13)
  • Paul Solomons – post-production editing
  • Benet Walsh – violin (track 6)
  • Gabriel Walsh – trumpet (track 12)

Charts

Chart (1998) Peak
position
UK Independent Albums (OCC) 19

References

  1. "New Releases 17 November 1997 – 23 November 1997: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  2. "New Releases 9 February 1998 – 15 February 1998: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  3. "New Releases 20 July 1998 – 26 July 1998: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  4. "Leila – Underwaters (One for Keni)". Bleep. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  5. "New Releases 30 March 1998 – 5 April 1998: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  6. ^ Bush, John. "Like Weather – Leila". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  7. Larkin, Colin, ed. (2009). "Leila". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (online 4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199726363. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  8. Hemingway, David (6 March 1998). "Leila: Like Weather (Rephlex)". The Guardian.
  9. Newsome, Rachel (April 1998). "Leila: Like Weather". Muzik. No. 35. p. 76.
  10. Kessler, Ted (14 March 1998). "Leila – Like Weather". NME. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  11. Richards, Sam (February 2021). "Leila: Like Weather". Uncut. No. 285. p. 46.
  12. "NME's best albums and tracks of 1998". NME. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  13. Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (30 July 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  14. Twells, John; Horner, Al; Lobenfeld, Claire; Welsh, April Clare; Wilson, Scott (30 December 2017). "22 incredible albums turning 20 in 2018". Fact. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  15. "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time". Pitchfork. 24 January 2017. p. 2. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  16. ^ Like Weather (liner notes). Leila. Rephlex Records. 1998. CAT 056 CD.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  17. "Like Weather (Remastered Edition) / Leila – Credits". Tidal. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  18. "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

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