Leave Your Sleep

Leave Your Sleep
Studio album by Natalie Merchant
Released 9 April 2010
Recorded July 2008 - May 2009
Genre Folk
Label Nonesuch
Producer Natalie Merchant, Andres Levin
Natalie Merchant chronology

Retrospective: 1995-2005
(2005)		 Leave Your Sleep
(2010)		 Natalie Merchant
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (75/100)[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]
BBC Music (favorable)[3]
Billboard (favorable)[4]
Drowned in Sound (4/10)[5]
Entertainment Weekly B+[6]
Paste (7.7/10)[7]
PopMatters [8]
Q [1]
Rolling Stone [9]

Leave Your Sleep is a double concept album by Natalie Merchant and is her fifth solo album. The album is "a project about childhood" and is a collection of music adapted from 19th and 20th century British and American poetry about childhood.[10] BBC Music describes it as "200 years of lyrical and musical history, washing beautifully by."[3]

Tracks

Disc 1 (Leave your Supper)[11]
No. Title Length
1. "Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience"   5:10
2. "Equestrienne"   4:38
3. "Calico Pie"   2:41
4. "Bleezer's Ice-Cream"   5:16
5. "It Makes a Change"   3:30
6. "The King of China's Daughter"   2:39
7. "The Dancing Bear"   5:37
8. "The Man in the Wilderness"   3:44
9. "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May"   4:06
10. "If No One Ever Marries Me"   2:21
11. "The Sleepy Giant"   3:19
12. "The Peppery Man"   5:05
13. "The Blind Men and the Elephant"   5:32
Disc 2 (Leave your Sleep)
No. Title Length
1. "Adventures of Isabel"   3:23
2. "The Walloping Window Blind"   4:16
3. "Topsyturvey-World"   5:08
4. "The Janitor's Boy"   3:52
5. "Griselda"   5:50
6. "The Land of Nod"   4:04
7. "Vain and Careless"   4:42
8. "Crying, My Little One"   2:26
9. "Sweet and a Lullaby"   3:04
10. "I Saw a Ship A-Sailing"   2:12
11. "Autumn Lullaby"   3:21
12. "Spring and Fall: to a Young Child"   3:03
13. "Indian Names"   5:52

Inspiration

The sleeve notes credit inspiration for the songs of this album as follows:

Charts

Album

Chart (2010) Peak
Position[13][14][15]
Austrian Album Charts 46
Belgian Flanders Album Charts 37
The Billboard 200 (U.S.) 17
Billboard Top Digital Albums (U.S.) 8
Billboard Top Folk Albums (U.S.) 1
Billboard Top Rock Albums 5
Dutch Album Charts 24
French Album Charts 90
German Album Charts 37
Greek Album Charts 23
Irish Album Charts 50
New Zealand Album Charts 30
UK Album Charts 46

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Critic Reviews for Leave Your Sleep". Metacritic. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Jurek, Thom. "Leave Your Sleep - Natalie Merchant". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lukowski, Andrzej (12 April 2010). "Review of Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep". BBC Music. BBC. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  4. ↑ Lipshutz, Jason (2010-04-30). "Natalie Merchant, 'Leave Your Sleep'". Billboard. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  5. ↑ Ferguson, Robert (13 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  6. ↑ Wood, Mikael (16 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep". Entertainment Weekly: 72.
  7. ↑ Leven, Jeff (1 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep :: Music :: Reviews". Paste. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  8. ↑ Cooke, Jennifer (27 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep". PopMatters. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  9. ↑ Hermes, Will (10 May 2010). "Leave Your Sleep". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ "Leave Your Sleep (2CD): Natalie Merchant: Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  12. ↑ If No One Ever Marries Me poem by Laurence Alma-Tadema, ArtMagick Illustrated Poetry Collection
  13. ↑ Steffen Hung. "Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  14. ↑
  15. ↑ "Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep - Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 19 February 2012.

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