Leave Your Sleep [2 Discs]

Rating

Album: Leave Your Sleep
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience	More Info...
2)	Equestrienne	More Info...
3)	Calico Pie	More Info...
4)	Bleezer's Ice-cream	More Info...
5)	It Makes a Change	More Info...
6)	The King of China's Daughter	More Info...
7)	The Dancing Bear	More Info...
8)	The Man in the Wilderness	More Info...
9)	Maggie and Milly and Molly and May	More Info...
10)	If No One Ever Marries Me	More Info...
11)	The Sleepy Giant	More Info...
12)	The Peppery Man	More Info...
13)	The Blind Men and the Elephant	More Info...

Album: Leave Your Sleep
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience	More Info...
2)	Equestrienne	More Info...
3)	Calico Pie	More Info...
4)	Bleezer's Ice-cream	More Info...
5)	It Makes a Change	More Info...
6)	The King of China's Daughter	More Info...
7)	The Dancing Bear	More Info...
8)	The Man in the Wilderness	More Info...
9)	Maggie and Milly and Molly and May	More Info...
10)	If No One Ever Marries Me	More Info...
11)	The Sleepy Giant	More Info...
12)	The Peppery Man	More Info...
13)	The Blind Men and the Elephant	More Info...

Performer Notes

Audio Mixer: Steve Rosenthal.
Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY; Legacy Recording Studios, New York, NY; The Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, NY; The Sound Kitchen, Nashville, TN.
Illustrator: Joseph Martin Kronheim.
Introduction by: Natalie Merchant.
Photographers: Marion Ettlinger; Mark Seliger; Matthew Brady; Edward Weston; Sebastian Peake; Charles Ritzmann; Ben Pinchot.
After exploring American folk traditions with The House Carpenter's Daughter, Natalie Merchant ends a seven-year hiatus by issuing a different sort of concept album. Leave Your Sleep finds her ruminating on childhood over the course of two discs, with lyrics and music adapted from 19th century poetry.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The music is beautiful and the vibe mellow..."

Entertainment Weekly (p.72) - "The result is scholarly, sure, but surprisingly spirited, too." -- Grade: B+

Billboard (p.28) - "She has returned with a painstakingly constructed record that feels light and nimble, a credit to her still-impressive talent as a songwriter."

Paste (magazine) (p.63) - "Fans of the more sinewy TIGERLILY will be floored to discover that something so theoretically precious may well be her best work since 10,000 Maniacs."