L.E.O. - Alpacas Orgling

L.E.O.'s Alpacas Orgling is an ingeniously and uniquely project arranged evocation of the orchestral pop-rock of the mid-70's, a sound built for the AM-radio pop charts of the time but also cool enough to resonate for years on the FM dial. It's a style epitomized by the sweeping productions of the Electric Light Orchestra, which created a technologically enhanced wall of sound as grand as Phil Spector's "teenage symphonies" of the mid-sixties. Among the collaborators assembled as L.E.O. are vocalist Andy Sturmer from nineties power pop-icons Jellyfish; singer/guitarist Mike Viola, formerly of the Candy Butchers and co-writer of the Oscar-nominated movie theme, "That Thing You Do!"; multi-platinum producer John Fields; Papas Fritas founder/producer Tony Goddess; Matt Mahaffey of the acclaimed one-man-band Self; Jason Scheff, vocalist and bassist for Chicago; singer/songwriter Paula Kelly; Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman; and eventhe Hanson brothers. L.E.O. is a 21st century, alt-pop version of the Traveling Wilburys, filtering ELO and like-minded groups through a modern, and more than a little subversive, sensibility. L.E.O.-ers were lucky enough to have more programs and bandwidth at their disposal. Many parts of this album were recorded remotely by the individual musicians and bounced back and forth via computer.

1) Overture
2) Goodbye Innocence
3) Ya Had Me Goin'
4) Distracted
5) Make Me
6) The Ol' College Try
7) Nothin' Will Ever Change
8) Don't Let It Go
9) Private Line
10) Sukaz Are Born Every Minute