Leave Your Sleep
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| Studio album by Natalie Merchant | ||||
| Released | 9 April 2010 | |||
| Recorded | July 2008 - May 2009 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | Natalie Merchant, Andres Levin | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (75/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| BBC Music | (favorable) |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
| Drowned in Sound | (4/10) |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Paste | (7.7/10) |
| PopMatters |   |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
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.BBC Music describes it as "200 years of lyrical and musical history, washing beautifully by."
The sleeve notes credit inspiration for the songs of this album as follows:
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