One Ring Zero Music Group

Is it a CD or a book? A musical tribute or an author anthology? The short answer for "As Smart as We Are," the newly released fifth album from Brooklyn quirk-pop duo One Ring Zero, is all of the above. Building songs around the lyrics of authors, it is literary rock and musical literature, the result of an experiment that paired New York's literary elite with odd-instrument aficionados One Ring Zero.

Is it a CD or a book? A musical tribute or an author anthology? The short answer for "As Smart as We Are," the newly released fifth album from Brooklyn quirk-pop duo One Ring Zero, is all of the above. Building songs around the lyrics of authors, it is literary rock and musical literature, the result of an experiment that paired New York's literary elite with odd-instrument aficionados One Ring Zero.