Like Weather
| Like Weather | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 30 March 1998 | |||
| Studio | Leila's home | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 48:15 | |||
| Label | Rephlex | |||
| Producer | Leila | |||
| Leila chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Like Weather | ||||
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
[edit]| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
| The Guardian | [8] |
| Muzik | 8/10[9] |
| NME | 9/10[10] |
| Uncut | 9/10[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
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Something" |
| 1:29 |
| 2. | "Don't Fall Asleep" |
| 3:27 |
| 3. | "Underwaters (One for Keni)" | L. Arab | 3:24 |
| 4. | "Feeling" |
| 4:40 |
| 5. | "Blue Grace" |
| 4:07 |
| 6. | "Space, Love" | L. Arab | 4:57 |
| 7. | "Knew" |
| 1:18 |
| 8. | "Melodicore" | L. Arab | 5:21 |
| 9. | "So Low...Amen" |
| 6:15 |
| 10. | "Misunderstood" |
| 3:31 |
| 11. | "Piano-String" | L. Arab | 2:33 |
| 12. | "Won't You Be My Baby, Baby" |
| 4:09 |
| 13. | "Away" |
| 3:04 |
| Total length: | 48:15 | ||
Sample credits[16]
- "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
[edit]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
[edit]| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Independent Albums (OCC)[18] | 19 |
References
[edit]- ^ "New Releases 17 November 1997 – 23 November 1997: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "New Releases 9 February 1998 – 15 February 1998: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "New Releases 20 July 1998 – 26 July 1998: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Leila – Underwaters (One for Keni)". Bleep. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "New Releases 30 March 1998 – 5 April 1998: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ a b Bush, John. "Like Weather – Leila". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2009). "Leila". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (online 4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199726363. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ Hemingway, David (6 March 1998). "Leila: Like Weather (Rephlex)". The Guardian.
- ^ Newsome, Rachel (April 1998). "Leila: Like Weather". Muzik. No. 35. p. 76.
- ^ Kessler, Ted (14 March 1998). "Leila – Like Weather". NME. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ Richards, Sam (February 2021). "Leila: Like Weather". Uncut. No. 285. p. 46.
- ^ "NME's best albums and tracks of 1998". NME. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (30 July 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time". Pitchfork. 24 January 2017. p. 2. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ a b Like Weather (liner notes). Leila. Rephlex Records. 1998. CAT 056 CD.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ "Like Weather (Remastered Edition) / Leila – Credits". Tidal. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
External links
[edit]- Like Weather at Discogs (list of releases)
