Leave Your Sleep

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Leave Your Sleep
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Studio album by
Natalie Merchant
Released9 April 2010 (2010-04-09)
RecordedJuly 2008 - May 2009
GenreFolk
Length1:44:51
LabelNonesuch
ProducerNatalie Merchant, Andres Levin
Natalie Merchant chronology
Retrospective: 1995-2005
(2005) 		Leave Your Sleep
(2010) 		Natalie Merchant
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(75/100)[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[2]
BBC Music(favorable)[3]
Billboard(favorable)[4]
Drowned in Sound(4/10)[5]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[6]
Paste(7.7/10)[7]
PopMatters7/10 stars[8]
Q4/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone3/5 stars[9]

Leave Your Sleep is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant. Produced by Merchant and Andres Levin, the double concept 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
No.TitleLength
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.TitleLength
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
Austrian Album Charts[12] 46
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13] 37
French Albums (SNEP)[14] 90
Irish Albums (IRMA)[15] 50
Italian Albums (FIMI)[16] 40
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[17] 37
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[18] 24
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[19] 30
UK Albums (OCC)[20] 46
US Billboard 200[21] 17
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[22] 8
US Folk Albums (Billboard)[23] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[24] 5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[25] 9

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "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. ^ Jump up to: a b Lukowski, Andrzej (12 April 2010). "Review of Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep". BBC Music. BBC. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  4. ^ Lipshutz, Jason (30 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant, 'Leave Your Sleep'". Billboard. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  5. ^ Ferguson, Robert (13 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. 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. ^ "Natalie Merchant "Leave Your Sleep" Album Preview". Billboard.
  11. ^ If No One Ever Marries Me poem by Laurence Alma-Tadema,
  12. ^ "Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep - Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  13. ^ "Ultratop.be – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  14. ^ "Lescharts.com – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
  15. ^ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 16, 2010". Chart-Track. IRMA.
  16. ^ "Italiancharts.com – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
  17. ^ "Officialcharts.de – Top 100 Longplay". GfK Entertainment Charts.
  18. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  19. ^ "Charts.nz – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
  20. ^ "Natalie Merchant | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart.
  21. ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
  22. ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Digital Albums)". Billboard.
  23. ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Top Americana/Folk Albums)". Billboard.
  24. ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard.
  25. ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard.

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