Leave Your Sleep
| Leave Your Sleep | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 9 April 2010 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 104:51 | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | Natalie Merchant, Andres Levin | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| 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 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. BBC Music describes it as "200 years of lyrical and musical history, washing beautifully by."