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. 

Big 10,000 Maniacs fan, so when she came out with the album/cd "Tigerlilly" I was mesmerized as I sat and listened to her very sorrowful voice on the song RIVER (written for her dear friend River Pheonix). Truly amazing (turn it way up :-)

I'm a big Natalie Merchant fan. I've seen her live a few times and it's always different. I have all her solo albums, and the ones with 10,000 Maniacs. As the first responder above said, she is an acquired taste. Many of her albums are a little dark (Motherland) but worth buying. Once you listen, you will likely fall under her spell. She had a big gap between albums, but I have never been disappointed by any of her material and look forward to the next one.

I remember when she came on Saturday Night Live right after leaving 10KM. Huge reception and celebration. Then she sort of disappeared from the mainstream.

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