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- Summary: The former 10,000 Maniacs singer releases a 26-track solo album based on poems about childhood.
- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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| The Man in the Wilderness | |
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| The Man in the wilderness He asked of me How many strawberries grow in the salt sea? And I answered him, as I thought good As many a ship sails in... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Entertainment WeeklyThe result is scholary, sure, but surprisingly spirited, too. [16 Apr 2010, p.72]
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Former 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman channels Alice In Wonderland with tingle-inducing results.
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Leave Your Sleep is easily her most ambitious work, yet because of that welcoming voice, it provides familiarity enough to gather listeners inside this world of sound.
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The broad spectrum of genres Merchant explores also prevents the set from feeling overlong. She has returned with a painstakingly constructed record that feels light and nimble, a credit to her still-impressive talent as a songwriter.
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Indeed, everything sounds so good from a purely musical perspective that the record perhaps doesn’t showcase its lyricists as well as it could.
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This labor of love (so exhaustively researched, so musically collaborative, so many years in the making) is not elitist or pedantic. It’s just beautiful and special.
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To be blunt though, for all the great literary and musical figures involved, the result of this creative vision sounds more or less the same as the music Natalie Merchant has been making for her whole solo career. Only more boring.
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Oct 4, 2013
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