Leila - U&I

Released: 23/01/2012 Warp

Leila Arab's fourth album comes out of a long-running collaboration with producer/ musician Mt. Sims. Arab has her work on Bjork's Biophilia to recommend her, Mt Sims a part in The Knife's opera Tomorrow, In A Year. Together they offer a range from grinding industrial to all out drum'n'bass. For more information visit: http://warp.net/records/releases/leila/u-and-i Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00644DT90/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=cul…

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80 %

Clash Music“Flits between cognisance and insanity, euphoria and emotional breakdown...” Akin to being trapped inside the mind of someone who’s turning ever so slightly deranged...

40%

Guardian“Not an easy listen...” Leila makes music that can't avoid being described as difficult. U and I is difficult in the sense of being complicated: loops of electronica manipulated and set against each other...

70 %

NME“Her missives are worth the wait...” Whips the spliced, spooked melodies and vintage rhythms of ‘Blood…’ into new, distorted shapes that at times recall the dark textures of Prurient’s ‘Bermuda Drain’...

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Reviewing: Leila - U&I

Recorded music

88%	Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge
85%	Jack White - Blunderbuss
85%	Xiu Xiu - Always
82%	Father John Misty - Fear Fun
79%	The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
78%	Hospitality - Hospitality
74%	Beach House - Bloom
74%	Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
74%	Amadou & Mariam - Folila
73%	Bowerbirds - The Clearing
73%	Best Coast - The Only Place
72%	The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben
71%	Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun
70%	Pond - Beard Wives Denim
68%	Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Cinema

100%	La Grande Illusion
86%	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
81%	The Cabin in the Woods
78%	Avengers Assemble
76%	Monsieur Lazhar
76%	Marley
75%	Le Havre
75%	Corpo Celeste
74%	The Kid With a Bike
73%	North Sea Texas
73%	Goodbye First Love
73%	Bill Cunningham New York
73%	Even the Rain
73%	Breathing
71%	Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life

Books

90%	Grace McCleen - The Land of Decoration
90%	Iain Banks - Stonemouth
90%	Nick Harkaway - Angelmaker
85%	Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears
83%	Claude Lanzmann - The Patagonian Hare
82%	HHhH - Laurent Binet
79%	Hilary Mantel - Bring up the Bodies
76%	Andrew Motion - Silver
76%	Nadine Gordimer - No Time Like the Present
75%	Toni Morrison - Home
74%	Charlotte Rogan - The Lifeboat
73%	Irvine Welsh - Skagboys
72%	Greg Baxter - The Apartment
38%	Lionel Shriver - The New Republic

Exhibitions

86%	Lucian Freud Portraits
85%	Miró: Sculptor
76%	Yayoi Kusama
76%	Song Dong - Waste Not
75%	Patrick Keiller: The Robinson Institute
75%	Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
72%	Brains: The Mind As Matter
71%	The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned
68%	Picasso and Modern British Art
67%	Remote Control
64%	Alighiero Boetti - Game Plan
55%	Damien Hirst
45%	Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude

Theatre

86%	Singin' in the Rain
80%	Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
80%	A Slow Air
78%	Tender Napalm
77%	Long Day's Journey into Night
72%	The Real Thing
70%	Mary Shelley
65%	The Sunshine Boys

Opera & Dance