Leave Your Sleep

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]

Leave Your Sleep
Studio album by
Natalie Merchant
Released9 April 2010 (2010-04-09)
RecordedJuly 2008 - May 2009
GenreFolk
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
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]

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. "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. 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. 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, ArtMagick Illustrated Poetry Collection
  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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