Keep Your Courage

Keep Your Courage is the upcoming eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant, due to be released on April 14, 2023 by Nonesuch Records. It is her first full-length studio album since 2014's Natalie Merchant and was promoted prior to release with the single "Come On, Aphrodite" on February 15, 2023, and "Tower of Babel" on March 30, 2023.[1][2] Merchant is also promoting the release with a tour, accompanied on some dates by a symphony orchestra.

Keep Your Courage
A statue of a woman cradling a sword and looking down on a black background with some colorful circles in the corner
Studio album by
Natalie Merchant
ReleasedApril 14, 2023 (2023-04-14)
Recorded2019–2022
GenreFolk
LanguageEnglish
LabelNonesuch
ProducerNatalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant chronology
Butterfly
(2017)		 Keep Your Courage
(2023)
Singles from Save Your Courage
  1. "Come On, Aphrodite"
    Released: February 15, 2023
  2. "Tower of Babel"
    Released: March 30, 2023

Recording and release

The album is a song cycle built around the concept of having a courageous heart.[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Natalie Merchant, except where noted

  1. "Big Girls"
  2. "Come On, Aphrodite" – 5:21
  3. "Sister Tilly"
  4. "Narcissus"
  5. "Hunting the Wren" (Ian Lynch)
  6. "Guardian Angel"
  7. "Eye of the Storm"
  8. "Tower of Babel" – 2:28
  9. "Song of Himself"
  10. "The Feat of Saint Valentine"

Vinyl edition bonus tracks

  1. "Spring & Fall: To a Young Child" – 3:03 (from Leave Your Sleep, 2010)
  2. "Butterfly" – 5:39 (from Butterfly, 2017)
  3. "Giving Up Everything" – 4:20 (from Natalie Merchant, 2014)
  4. "Frozen Charlotte" – 5:58 (from Butterfly, 2017)

Personnel

See also

References
  1. "Natalie Merchant Unveils "Come On, Aphrodite," First Single From Upcoming Album, 'Keep Your Courage'". Nonesuch Records. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  2. Major, Michael (2023-03-30). "Natalie Merchant Debuts New Single 'Tower of Babel'". Broadway World. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  3. Sacks, Mike (2023-04-02). "Natalie Merchant's Lost American Songs". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. OCLC 320541675. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
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