Like Weather

Like Weather
Like Weather
Studio album by Leila
Released	30 March 1998
Studio	Leila's home
Genre	IDM; trip hop;
Length	48:15
Label	Rephlex
Producer	Leila
Leila chronology
Singles from Like Weather
	"Don't Fall Asleep"; Released: 17 November 1997; "Space, Love"; Released: 9 February 1998; "Feeling"; Released: 20 July 1998; "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.^[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Something"	Leila Arab Luca Santucci	1:29
2.	"Don't Fall Asleep"	L. Arab Santucci	3:27
3.	"Underwaters (One for Keni)"	L. Arab	3:24
4.	"Feeling"	L. Arab Donna Paul	4:40
5.	"Blue Grace"	L. Arab Roya Arab	4:07
6.	"Space, Love"	L. Arab	4:57
7.	"Knew"	L. Arab Santucci	1:18
8.	"Melodicore"	L. Arab	5:21
9.	"So Low...Amen"	L. Arab Santucci	6:15
10.	"Misunderstood"	L. Arab Paul	3:31
11.	"Piano-String"	L. Arab	2:33
12.	"Won't You Be My Baby, Baby"	L. Arab Santucci Brian Auger Roger Sutton	4:09
13.	"Away"	L. Arab Santucci	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

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

^ "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

Like Weather at Discogs (list of releases)

[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.

[allmusic-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.

[notes-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.

[ac_UKIndependent_-18] "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

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