Blood Looms and Blooms

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Blood Looms and Blooms
Blood, Looms, and Blooms.jpg
Studio album by
Released7 July 2008 (2008-07-07)
Length54:51
Label Warp
Producer Leila
Leila chronology
Courtesy of Choice
(2000)
Blood Looms and Blooms
(2008)
U&I
(2012)
Singles from Blood Looms and Blooms
  1. "Mettle"
    Released: 21 April 2008
  2. "Deflect"
    Released: 23 June 2008
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Cokemachineglow 82% [3]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [4]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [6]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
URB Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Blood Looms and Blooms is the third studio album by electronic music artist Leila, released by Warp in 2008. It peaked at number 33 on the UK Dance Albums Chart. [9]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 73% based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

PopMatters placed it at number 5 on the "Best Electronic(a) Albums of 2008" list. [10] AllMusic listed it as one of their favourite electronic albums of 2008. [11] Gilles Peterson named it the 16th best album of 2008. [12]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Mollie"5:20
2."Time to Blow"3:08
3."Little Acorns"3:29
4."Daisies, Cats and Spacemen"4:26
5."Mettle"4:24
6."Teases Me"3:31
7."Carplos"4:21
8."The Exotics"3:46
9."Deflect"4:23
10."Norwegian Wood"3:34
11."Lush Dolphins"4:03
12."Ur Train"2:37
13."Young Ones"3:23
14."Why Should I?"4:27
iTunes edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
15."You Can Dance... If You Want 2"3:51
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
15."Oddity 01"5:01

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Charts

ChartPeak
position
UK Dance Albums (OCC) [9] 33

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