Leave Your Sleep
Appearance
Untitled | |
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Aggregate scores | |
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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. Produced by Natalie Merchant and Andres Levin 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
No. | Title | Length |
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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 |
No. | Title | Length |
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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:
- Adventures of Isabel - Ogden Nash
- Autumn Lullaby - Anonymous
- Bleezer's Ice-Cream - Jack Prelutsky
- Calico Pie - Edward Lear
- Crying, My Little One - Christina Rossetti
- If No One Ever Marries Me - Laurence Alma-Tadema[12]
- Indian Names - Lydia Huntley Sigourney
- I Saw a Ship A-Sailing - Anonymous
- It Makes a Change - Mervyn Peake
- Equestrienne - Rachel Field
- Griselda - Eleanor Farjeon
- Maggie and Milly and Molly and May - E. E. Cummings
- Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience - Charles Causley
- Spring and Fall - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Sweet and a Lullaby - Anonymous
- The Blindmen and the Elephant - John Godfrey Saxe
- The Dancing Bear - Albert Paine
- The Janitor's Boy - Nathalia Crane
- The King of China's Daughter - Anonymous
- The Land of Nod - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Man in the Wilderness - Anonymous
- The Peppery Man - Arthur Macy
- The Sleepy Giant - Charles E. Carryl
- The Walloping Window Blind - Charles E. Carryl
- Topsyturvey-World - William Brighty Rands
- Vain and Careless - Robert Graves
Charts
Album
Chart (2010) | Peak Position |
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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 |
Illegal chart entered Germany2 | 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
- ^ a b "Critic Reviews for Leave Your Sleep". Metacritic. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ Jurek, Thom. "Leave Your Sleep - Natalie Merchant". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ a b Lukowski, Andrzej (12 April 2010). "Review of Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep". BBC Music. BBC. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- ^ Lipshutz, Jason (30 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant, 'Leave Your Sleep'". Billboard. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
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(help) - ^ Ferguson, Robert (13 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ Wood, Mikael (16 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep". Entertainment Weekly: 72.
- ^ Leven, Jeff (1 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep :: Music :: Reviews". Paste. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
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(help) - ^ Cooke, Jennifer (27 April 2010). "Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep". PopMatters. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ Hermes, Will (10 May 2010). "Leave Your Sleep". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
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(help) - ^ [1]
- ^ "Leave Your Sleep (2CD): Natalie Merchant: Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ If No One Ever Marries Me poem by Laurence Alma-Tadema, ArtMagick Illustrated Poetry Collection
- ^ "Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep - Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
- ^ "Lescharts.com – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
- ^ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 16, 2010". Chart-Track. IRMA.
- ^ "Italiancharts.com – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
- ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
- ^ "Charts.nz – Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep". Hung Medien.
- ^ "Natalie Merchant | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart.
- ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
- ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Digital Albums)".[dead link] Billboard.
- ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Top Americana/Folk Albums)". Billboard.
- ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard.
- ^ "Natalie Merchant Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard.