Former 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman Natalie Merchant tells Hot Press she’s a wreck after spending five years working on her new album Leave Your Sleep.

About 50 songs were written for the project, 35 were recorded and 26 chosen, all based on poetry from composers old and new, from e e cummings to Mother Goose. The recording features 130 musicians.

With Irish blood on her mother’s side, the 46-year-old insisted she debut the project in Ireland. “Everyone was saying we have to focus on England, but I said, ‘No, we have to go to Ireland!’’, she tells Hot Press.

Read the full interview with Natalie Merchant in the issue of Hot Press published today (Paul Weller cover)

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