Natalie Merchant (album)
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| Released | May 6, 2014 | |||
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| Length | 47:25 | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | Natalie Merchant | |||
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Natalie Merchant is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant, released on May 6, 2014, by Nonesuch Records. Her first studio album consisting of all original material since Motherland (2001), it revisits a characteristic theme of Merchant's, of "characters, and women in particular, struggling in a culture where odds are stacked against them".[2]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 73/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
| Drowned in Sound | 6/10[5] |
| Exclaim! | 7/10[6] |
| PopMatters | 7/10[7] |
Upon release, the album received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the album received a score of 73, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]
Commercial reception
In the United States, the album debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 albums chart on its first week of release,[8] selling around 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week. It also debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Folk Albums,[9] and No. 5 on the Rock Albums chart.[10] As of October 2015, the album has sold 44,000 copies in the US.[11]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Natalie Merchant.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Ladybird" | 6:37 |
| 2. | "Maggie Said" | 4:27 |
| 3. | "Texas" | 5:02 |
| 4. | "Go Down Moses" | 5:01 |
| 5. | "Seven Deadly Sins" | 4:51 |
| 6. | "Giving Up Everything" | 4:20 |
| 7. | "Black Sheep" | 4:08 |
| 8. | "It's A-Coming" | 3:50 |
| 9. | "Lulu (introduction)" | 1:03 |
| 10. | "Lulu" | 4:15 |
| 11. | "The End" | 5:11 |
| Total length: | 47:25 | |
