Like Weather | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 30 March 1998 | |||
Studio | Leila's home | |||
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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]
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Source | Rating |
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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 |
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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 |
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UK Independent Albums (OCC) [18] | 19 |
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