Leave Your Sleep

Leave Your Sleep
Studio album by Natalie Merchant
Released 9 April 2010 (2010-04-09)
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
SourceRating
Metacritic(75/100)[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
BBC Music(favorable)[3]
Billboard(favorable)[4]
Drowned in Sound(4/10)[5]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[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
Austrian Album Charts[13] 46
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[14] 37
French Albums (SNEP)[15] 90
Greek Album Charts 23
Irish Albums (IRMA)[16] 50
Italian Albums (FIMI)[17] 40
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[18] 37
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[19] 24
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[20] 30
UK Albums (OCC)[21] 46
US Billboard 200[22] 17
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[23] 8
US Folk Albums (Billboard)[24] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[25] 5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[26] 9

References

  1. 1 2 "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. 1 2 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. ↑ "Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep - Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  14. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  15. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
  16. ↑ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 16, 2010". Chart-Track. IRMA.
  17. ↑ "Italiancharts.com – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
  18. ↑ "Officialcharts.de – Top 100 Longplay". GfK Entertainment.
  19. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  20. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
  21. ↑ "Natalie Merchant | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart
  22. ↑ "Natalie Merchant – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Natalie Merchant.
  23. ↑ "Natalie Merchant – Chart history" Billboard Digital Albums for Natalie Merchant.
  24. ↑ "Natalie Merchant – Chart history" Billboard Folk Albums for Natalie Merchant.
  25. ↑ "Natalie Merchant – Chart history" Billboard Top Rock Albums for Natalie Merchant.
  26. ↑ "Natalie Merchant – Chart history" Billboard Top Tastemaker Albums for Natalie Merchant.

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