Courtesy of Choice (2000) is Leila's second LP. Her very good debut, Like Weather (1998), had showed her mixing various influences, such as soul, electronica, trip-hop (her sister's voice was instrumental is this, as Roya Arab sang the female parts on Archive's Londinium) and IDM (her debut was published on Aphex's Rephlex label).
On CoC she hasn't totally given up on 'future soul' ambitions yet :
Elsewhere, she weaves up beautiful little electronic lullabies and nursery rhymes, which, like all children's song, are both charming and disquieting, all the more as they can end up in total white noise mayhem :
And while the album closes and you listen to the splendor that is the waltzy "Young Ones", light and heavy, light as pearls and heavy as only a child's grief can be, you know you've be taken back to when you were 6 years-old and alone in the dark, and you remember how childhood was the creepiest, saddest period in your life.
And you go watch the only other work of art that says this as well as Courtesy of Choice : you're one of Night of the Hunter's "young ones" yourself, drifting on a boat down the river at night, while owls and frogs watch you fall asleep in your trip.
Courtesy of Choice. A cool find, if a bit hit and miss. That said, Bloom is a pretty good record. Can't remember if it made my Top 50 of 2012, but it wasn't far off. Preferred their previous effort though. There's not a lot in it, but I slightly preferred the Leila record, and it's one I'll be returning to. Also, underdog.
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