| 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]
| 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]
| 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]
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [16]
| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Independent Albums (OCC) [18] | 19 |
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