Leila: U&I – review

(Warp)The fourth album by Leila Arab is not an easy listen. In fact, none of the three that preceded it were, either. A protege of both Björk and Aphex Twin, 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. It's also difficult in the sense of being hard to understand, the vocal content (provided exclusively by Berlin-based performance artist Mt Sims) being little ...

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