Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep

Our Time in Eden is analogous to the Polices Synchronicity: after that apex, there was really no higher each band could have gone. 

I kinda hopped off the train after Motherland, but jumped back on when I heard Butterfly. 

For a long time she was an artist in Residence at the New York City Head Start program and she was kind of out of active music production for that time. You know I've been listening to 10,000 Maniacs since probably 1990 or 91 and I really don't see Natalie merchandise and acquired taste. I mean she's not like a Bjork or a Lori Anderson or something similar. She's pretty mainstream when it comes to composition and delivery. Yes her voice is non-traditional but it's definitely not niche