Like Weather Explained

Like Weather
Type:	studio
Artist:	Leila
Cover:	Leila - LW.jpeg
Border:	yes
Studio:	Leila's home
Label:	Rephlex
Producer:	Leila
Next Title:	Courtesy of Choice
Next Year:	2000

Like Weather is the debut studio album by English electronic musician Leila. It was released on 30 March 1998 by Rephlex Records.^[1]

Critical reception

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."

At the end of 1998, NME named Like Weather the year's 10th best album.^[2] In 2015, it was placed at number six on Facts 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."^[3] Two years later, Fact listed Like Weather as one of the best albums of 1998,^[4] and Pitchfork ranked it as the 39th best IDM album of all time.^[5]

Track listing

Sample credits

• "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.^[6]

• Leila – production,^[7] 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Releases 30 March 1998 – 5 April 1998: All. Juno Records. 11 June 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20040927023815/http://www.juno.co.uk/all30-3-98.htm. 27 September 2004. dead.
2. Web site: NME's best albums and tracks of 1998. NME. 10 October 2016. 2 January 2018.
3. Web site: The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time. Fact. John. Twells. Xela (musician). Laurent. Fintoni. 30 July 2015. 22 December 2016.
4. Web site: 22 incredible albums turning 20 in 2018. Fact. John. Twells. Xela (musician). Al. Horner. Claire. Lobenfeld. April Clare. Welsh. Scott. Wilson. 30 December 2017. 19 July 2018.
5. Web site: The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time. Pitchfork. 24 January 2017. 17 March 2017. 2.
6. Like Weather. Leila. Rephlex Records. 1998. CAT 056 CD. liner notes.
7. Web site: Like Weather (Remastered Edition) / Leila – Credits. Tidal. 11 June 2021.