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:

• 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
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. "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 (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.
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 Charts.
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.

External links

• Natalie Merchant, "Leave Your Sleep" by Billboard
• Leave Your Sleep at Metacritic