Jason Lytle, perhaps best known for his early collaborations with Elliot Smith, has put together a killer quartet, and their first product The Sophtware Slump is a grand effort that is something of a concept-album that pays tribute to ELO frontman Jeff Lynne. Kind of a cross between Neil Young and Flaming Lips, the tracks are laced with samples from ELO standards (which many of you will be too young to recognize) none of my colleagues that love this album noticed the Jeff Lynne business--which just serves to prove the timelessness of good music--and how damn old I'm getting to be.