LEILA
COURTESY OF CHOICE ASIDES AND BSIDES - CD
UPC: 191404157121
Label: XL RECORDINGS
Format: CD
Release Date: November 14, 2025
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Iranian-born, London-based innovator Leila has been described as one of the “1990s forgotten mavericks” (Pitchfork) and is an integral member of the golden generation of boundary-pushing electronic producers, working with the likes of Bjork, Terry Hall, Martina Topley-Bird, and Aphex Twin.
After releasing her debut album ‘Like Weather’ via Aphex Twin's label Rephlex in 1998, Leila signed to XL and released ‘Courtesy of Choice’ in 2000, an album described as “creative, highly listenable, unpretentious electronic music at its best” (Exclaim!).
To celebrate the album's 25th anniversary, Leila reissues ‘Courtesy of Choice ۲۵… asides and besides’, the expanded edition of her seminal XL Recordings sophomore album. Here Leila blends glitchy textures, emotive melodies, and off-kilter beats to craft deeply personal sonic landscapes - her work helped shape the post-trip-hop, IDM-influenced sound of the early 2000s, influencing the generation that followed.
TRACK LIST:
- Brave
- Work
- rom Before... What?
- Relax The Pleasuredome
- Sodastream
- Gush Goog
- To Win Her Love
- Thanks mr jones
- To Tell a Lie
- I Won't Forget
- Be Clowns
- Different Time
- Different Time (Reprise)
- young ones
- track 5
- existential megamix
- METHODOLOGIES - tim giles live drum takes
- Lush Nova Elec
- old dat biz 1 #46 (wakey wakey)
- acid frog fave
- techyarr
- a reasoning
- old tech 38
- sweets (bring u back)
- new guardmeter
- to win her love s&g asides - Extended 2025
- cowboy situation
- what i offer
- birdie rave
- mein herr
- some curious joy (cute tough beat)
- the cuban situation
- odds - live trans musicales festival 2000
- The Gamble Room
