Like Weather

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/like-weather-mw0000047064|title=Like Weather – Leila|publisher=AllMusic|first=John|last=Bush|access-date=17 March 2017}}

| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|chapter=Leila|chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195313734.001.0001/acref-9780195313734-e-16163|access-date=8 October 2017|chapter-url-access=subscription|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor-first=Colin|editor-last=Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=online 4th|year=2009|isbn=9780199726363}}

| rev3 = The Guardian

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news|title=Leila: Like Weather (Rephlex)|newspaper=The Guardian|first=David|last=Hemingway|date=6 March 1998}}

| rev4 = Muzik

| rev4score = 8/10{{cite magazine|title=Leila: Like Weather|magazine=Muzik|first=Rachel|last=Newsome|issue=35|date=April 1998|page=76}}

| rev5 = NME

| rev5score = 9/10{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000369reviews.html|title=Leila – Like Weather|magazine=NME|first=Ted|last=Kessler|date=14 March 1998|access-date=8 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817095100/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000369reviews.html|archive-date=17 August 2000|url-status=dead}}

| rev6 = Uncut

| rev6score = 9/10{{cite magazine|title=Leila: Like Weather|magazine=Uncut|first=Sam|last=Richards|issue=285|date=February 2021|page=46}}

}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/features/1998-2-1045362|title=NME's best albums and tracks of 1998|website=NME|date=10 October 2016|access-date=2 January 2018}} 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."{{cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2015/07/30/50-best-trip-hop-albums/|title=The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time|website=Fact|first1=John|last1=Twells|author1-link=Xela (musician)|first2=Laurent|last2=Fintoni|date=30 July 2015|access-date=22 December 2016}} Two years later, Fact listed Like Weather as one of the best albums of 1998,{{cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2017/12/30/albums-turning-20-in-2018/|title=22 incredible albums turning 20 in 2018|website=Fact|first1=John|last1=Twells|author1-link=Xela (musician)|first2=Al|last2=Horner|first3=Claire|last3=Lobenfeld|first4=April Clare|last4=Welsh|first5=Scott|last5=Wilson|date=30 December 2017|access-date=19 July 2018}} and Pitchfork ranked it as the 39th best IDM album of all time.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10011-the-50-best-idm-albums-of-all-time/?page=2|title=The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time|website=Pitchfork|date=24 January 2017|access-date=17 March 2017|page=2}}

{{Track listing

| title1 = Something

| writer1 = {{hlist|Leila Arab|Luca Santucci}}

| length1 = 1:29

| title2 = Don't Fall Asleep

| writer2 = {{hlist|L. Arab|Santucci}}

| length2 = 3:27

| title3 = Underwaters (One for Keni)

| writer3 = L. Arab

| length3 = 3:24

| title4 = Feeling

| writer4 = {{hlist|L. Arab|Donna Paul}}

| length4 = 4:40

| title5 = Blue Grace

| writer5 = {{hlist|L. Arab|Roya Arab}}

| length5 = 4:07

| title6 = Space, Love

| writer6 = L. Arab

| length6 = 4:57

| title7 = Knew

| writer7 = {{hlist|L. Arab|Santucci}}

| length7 = 1:18

| title8 = Melodicore

| writer8 = L. Arab

| length8 = 5:21

| title9 = So Low...Amen

| writer9 = {{hlist|L. Arab|Santucci}}

| length9 = 6:15

| title10 = Misunderstood

| writer10 = {{hlist|L. Arab|Paul}}

| length10 = 3:31

| title11 = Piano-String

| writer11 = L. Arab

| length11 = 2:33

| title12 = Won't You Be My Baby, Baby

| writer12 = {{hlist|L. Arab|Santucci|Brian Auger|Roger Sutton}}

| length12 = 4:09

| title13 = Away

| writer13 = {{hlist|L. Arab|Santucci}}

| length13 = 3:04

| total_length = 48:15

}}

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.

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes|title=Like Weather|others=Leila|publisher=Rephlex Records|year=1998|id=CAT 056 CD|type=liner notes}}

• Leila – production,{{cite web|url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/176030362/credits|title=Like Weather (Remastered Edition) / Leila – Credits|publisher=Tidal|access-date=11 June 2021}} 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)

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Category:1998 debut albums

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Category:Rephlex Records albums