Like Weather
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::data[format=table title="Infobox album"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Like Weather |
| type | studio |
| artist | Leila |
| cover | Leila - LW.jpeg |
| border | yes |
| released | |
| studio | Leila's home |
| genre | |
| length | |
| label | Rephlex |
| producer | Leila |
| next_title | Courtesy of Choice |
| next_year | 2000 |
| misc | {{Singles |
| name | Like Weather |
| type | studio |
| single1 | Don't Fall Asleep |
| single1date | 17 November 1997 |
| single2 | Space, Love |
| single2date | 9 February 1998 |
| single3 | Feeling |
| single3date | 20 July 1998 |
| single4 | Underwaters (One for Keni) |
| single4date | 1 December 2011 |
| :: |
| name = Like Weather | type = studio | artist = Leila | cover = Leila - LW.jpeg | border = yes | alt = | released = | recorded = | studio = Leila's home | genre = | length = | label = Rephlex | producer = Leila | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Courtesy of Choice | next_year = 2000 | misc = {{Singles | name = Like Weather | type = studio | single1 = Don't Fall Asleep | single1date = 17 November 1997 | single2 = Space, Love | single2date = 9 February 1998 | single3 = Feeling | single3date = 20 July 1998 | single4 = Underwaters (One for Keni) | single4date = 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
| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = | rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music | rev2score = | rev3 = The Guardian | rev3score = | rev4 = Muzik | rev4score = 8/10 | rev5 = NME | rev5score = 9/10 | rev6 = Uncut | rev6score = 9/10
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
| title1 = Something | writer1 = | length1 = 1:29 | title2 = Don't Fall Asleep | writer2 = | length2 = 3:27 | title3 = Underwaters (One for Keni) | writer3 = L. Arab | length3 = 3:24 | title4 = Feeling | writer4 = | length4 = 4:40 | title5 = Blue Grace | writer5 = | length5 = 4:07 | title6 = Space, Love | writer6 = L. Arab | length6 = 4:57 | title7 = Knew | writer7 = | length7 = 1:18 | title8 = Melodicore | writer8 = L. Arab | length8 = 5:21 | title9 = So Low...Amen | writer9 = | length9 = 6:15 | title10 = Misunderstood | writer10 = | length10 = 3:31 | title11 = Piano-String | writer11 = L. Arab | length11 = 2:33 | title12 = Won't You Be My Baby, Baby | writer12 = | length12 = 4:09 | title13 = Away | writer13 = | length13 = 3:04 | total_length = 48:15
Sample credits
- "Won't You Be My Baby, Baby" contains samples of "Break It Up", written by Brian Auger and Roger Sutton and performed by Brian Auger and the Trinity and Julie Driscoll.
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
::data[format=table] | Chart (1998) | Peak position | |---|---| ::
References
References
- "New Releases 17 November 1997 – 23 November 1997: All". [[Juno Records]].
- "New Releases 9 February 1998 – 15 February 1998: All". [[Juno Records]].
- "New Releases 20 July 1998 – 26 July 1998: All". [[Juno Records]].
- (December 2011). "Leila – Underwaters (One for Keni)". [[Bleep (store).
- "New Releases 30 March 1998 – 5 April 1998: All". [[Juno Records]].
- Bush, John. "Like Weather – Leila". [[AllMusic]].
- (2009). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". [[Oxford University Press]].
- Hemingway, David. (6 March 1998). "Leila: Like Weather (Rephlex)". [[The Guardian]].
- Newsome, Rachel. (April 1998). "Leila: Like Weather".
- Kessler, Ted. (14 March 1998). "Leila – Like Weather".
- Richards, Sam. (February 2021). "Leila: Like Weather".
- (10 October 2016). "NME's best albums and tracks of 1998".
- (30 July 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time".
- (30 December 2017). "22 incredible albums turning 20 in 2018".
- (24 January 2017). "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time".
- (1998). "Like Weather". [[Rephlex Records]].
- (20 November 2020). "Like Weather (Remastered Edition) / Leila – Credits". [[Tidal (service).
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