The Original Leap Year

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The Original Leap Year
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Studio album by
Released1997
Genre Pop
Label Dead Daisy Records [1]
Producer Emm Gryner
Emm Gryner chronology
And Distrust It
(1995)
The Original Leap Year
(1997)
Public
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Original Leap Year is the second album by Emm Gryner, released on Gryner's independent Dead Daisy Records. [3]

Contents

Gryner funded the album with prize money from Standard Broadcasting's National Songwriting Competition. The album, which was credited as a thematic song cycle inspired by the zodiac, attracted significant media attention in Canada, and Gryner was offered a major label deal with Mercury Records. She rerecorded some of the same songs for her 1998 major label debut Public , although that album also included several newer songs. [4]

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote: "Simple in its approach and running the gamut from raw power to quiet simplicity, The Original Leap Year proves its beauty without the makeup of a major studio effort." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Hello Aquarius"
  2. "This Mad"
  3. "The End"
  4. "Your Sort of Human Being"
  5. "Fetching Decay"
  6. "Hook Machine"
  7. "Wisdom Bus"
  8. "89 Days of Alcatraz"
  9. "Headline Girl"
  10. "July"
  11. "Big Day"
  12. "Doomsday"

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References

  1. "Interview with Emm Gryner". August 1, 1999.
  2. 1 2 "The Original Leap Year - Emm Gryner | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
  3. "Emm Gryner | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  4. "Emm Gryner". Trouser Press. Retrieved 8 October 2020.