''Like Weather'' is the debut

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by English

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musician Leila. It was released on 30 March 1998 by

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Critical reception

Reviewing ''Like Weather'' for

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, John Bush noted the album's "tremendously eclectic" tone, which he said "is of an experimentalism far in advance of other

singer/songwriter acts out there." At the end of 1998, ''

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'' named ''Like Weather'' the year's 10th best album. In 2015, it was placed at number six on ''

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''s list of the best

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albums of all time, with the magazine calling it "a hazy, underwater daydream of a record with half-heard

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, pop and chiming ice cream truck electronics swirling together in a soup of memory and emotion. Not quite trip-hop and not quite

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, it certainly wasn't IDM either." Two years later, ''Fact'' listed ''Like Weather'' as one of the best albums of 1998, and ''

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'' ranked it as the 39th best IDM album of all time.

Track listing

Sample credits * "Won't You Be My Baby, Baby" contains samples of "Break It Up", written by

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and Roger Sutton and performed by

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and

Julie Driscoll Julie Driscoll Tippetts (born 8 June 1947) is an English singer and actress. Career Driscoll is known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's " Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger an ...

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. * Leila –

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, mixing,

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* Ali Akbar –

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consultancy (track 6) *

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– vocals (track 5) * Richard D. James – post-production editing * Dan Lipman –

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(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)

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1998 debut albums Leila (music producer) albums Albums recorded in a home studio Rephlex Records albums