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Entertainment WeeklyThe result is scholary, sure, but surprisingly spirited, too. [16 Apr 2010, p.72]
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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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Former 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman channels Alice In Wonderland with tingle-inducing results.
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Q MagazineA highly original two-disc set that as precious as it sounds, adpats poems from such diverse sources as ee cummings ans Gerald Manley Hopkins. [May 2010, p.124]
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It’s an effortlessly elegant and pleasant ride that even the obvious hip-yuppie trappings of it all can’t obscure.
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 23
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Mixed: 0 out of 23
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Negative: 5 out of 23
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Oct 4, 2013