The Original Leap Year is the second album by Emm Gryner

Emm Gryner

Emm Gryner is a Canadian singer-songwriter and occasional actress.-Biography:Gryner's childhood was spent in Forest, Lambton County, Ontario. Her father was of half Irish heritage and her mother was Filipina....

, released in 1997 on Gryner's independent Dead Daisy Records

Dead Daisy Records

Dead Daisy Records is a Canadian independent record label, owned and operated by singer-songwriter Emm Gryner. Artists who have released material on the label include Gryner, In-Flight Safety, Daniel Ledwell, Hot One, Andrew Spice, Royal Wood and Noah's Arkweld....

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Gryner funded the album with prize money from Standard Broadcasting

Standard Broadcasting

Slaight Communications is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. The company was first formed as Slaight Broadcasting in 1971, when owner J. Allan Slaight acquired CFGM in Richmond Hill...

's National Songwriting Competition. The album, which was credited as a thematic song cycle inspired by the zodiac

Zodiac

In astronomy, the zodiac is a circle of twelve 30° divisions of celestial longitude which are centred upon the ecliptic: the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year...

, attracted significant media attention in Canada, and Gryner was offered a major label deal with Mercury Records

Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...

. She rerecorded some of the same songs for her 1998 major label debut Public

Public (album)

Public is the third album by Emm Gryner, released in 1998.The album, released on Mercury Records, was not a strong seller, and Gryner was subsequently dropped from the label after Mercury was acquired by Universal Music...

, although that album also included several newer songs.

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"