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Like Weather

Leila (Dance & DJ) | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (30 Mar 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: S.R.D
  • ASIN: B000024BEJ
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 17,399 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Something
2. Don't Fall Asleep
3. Underwaters (One For Keni)
4. Feeling
5. Blue Grace
6. Space, Love
7. Knew
8. Melodicore
9. So Low...Amen
10. Misunderstood
11. Piano-String
12. Won't You Be My Baby, Baby
13. Away

Product Description

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The closest relative of Leila's Like Weather is Tricky's Maxinquaye. Both bear the hallmarks of soul music, but both are defiantly futuristic records, warping the textures of traditional soul with the expansive production techniques of electronica and hip-hop. What makes the youthful Leila Arab's Like Weather a remarkable record is the feat of its achievement measured by the yardstick of its difficult birth. Pieced together in a home studio, Like Weather sounds remarkably accomplished, creating complex, progressive washes of sound and deft, funky loops. It's the songs, rather than the more experimental noodlings that make the album, though; Leila's friend Luca vocalises like a man thrice his age on "Won't You Be My Baby, Baby" but "Feeling", sung by Donna Paul, is the album's more naked highlight. Great things are expected. --Louis Pattison

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Total gem of an album 6 Feb 2002
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
I remember this coming out about 4 years ago and buying it on a whim, and being completely bowled over buy it, not to mention smug about what a good buy it was. The title sums the album up very well - many songs do sound 'like the weather'. Strange. Many great tracks on here, but the soulful 'feeling', blistering fuzz-funk of 'Blue Grace', the sparse and icey sounding 'knew', and the northern soul stomper 'Won't you be my baby?' are the real standouts. Like many of the greats, this album has a wide range of influences, that comes from a life spent inside headphones, and manages to incorporate many genres (as is the fashion these days), yet has a sound all of its own. I remember someone saying that this is the album Tricky should have made between Maxinquaye and PMT, and I can't think of a better way to recommend it. Brilliant.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Leila is a genius, or maybe close . . . 8 Dec 2006
By J. E. Holden
Format:Audio CD
I first saw Leila on a short Channel 4 documentary the year Like Weather came out. Fortunately I recorded the doco and still have it. The former keyboard player for Bjork (at arguably Bjork's peak), she is super cool and the tunes they played on the doco were simply brilliant. I later bought the album and was not disappointed.

Leila Arab is a genius, or at least close. The tunes on this album range from the funky to the serene. Space, love, Underwaters & Melodicore are timeless classics, which I'm sure will still sound modern in twenty years time. The tunes featuring Luca are funky yet oddly understated. You feel like they could belt out more, but that would make them more commercial. Commercial is what I get the feeling Leila aches to avoid. Unjustly she did avoid fame with this album, which frankly is a travesty. My feeling is that in time, she'll do a Nick Drake and get discovered by a far off generation from her contemporarys'. Hopefully she'll be around to get the plaudits and the cash that will come her way when this happens.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Leila Arab is a genius, or close 14 Dec 2003
By J. E. Holden
Format:Audio CD
I first saw Leila on a short Channel 4 documentary the year Like Weather came out. Fortunately I recorded the doco and still have it. The former keyboard player for Bjork (at arguably Bjork's peak), she is super cool and the tunes they played on the doco were simply brilliant. I later bought the album and was not disappointed.

Leila Arab is a genius, or at least close. The tunes on this album range from the funky to the serene. Space, love, Underwaters & Melodicore are timeless classics, which I'm sure will still sound modern in twenty years time. The tunes featuring Luca are funky yet oddly understated. You feel like they could belt out more, but that would make them more commercial. Commercial is what I get the feeling Leila aches to avoid. Unjustly she did avoid fame with this album, which frankly is a travesty. My feeling is that in time, she'll do a Nick Drake and get discovered by a far off generation from her contemporarys'. Hopefully she'll be around to get the plaudits and the cash that will come her way when this happens.

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