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[1]
  2. "Space, Love"
    Released: 9 February 1998[2]
  3. "Feeling"
    Released: 20 July 1998[3]
  4. "Underwaters (One for Keni)"
    Released: 1 December 2011[4]

Like Weather is the debut studio album by English electronic musician Leila. It was released on 30 March 1998 by Rephlex Records.[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[7]
The Guardian[8]
Muzik8/10[9]
NME9/10[10]
Uncut9/10[11]

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."[6]

At the end of 1998, NME named Like Weather the year's 10th best album.[12] 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."[13] Two years later, Fact listed Like Weather as one of the best albums of 1998,[14] and Pitchfork ranked it as the 39th best IDM album of all time.[15]

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[16]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[16]

  • Leila – production,[17] 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)[18] 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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