Leap is the second album released by Drop Trio. The album debuted in 2004 and was self-released by the band. The album is noted as having been recorded entirely improvised in the studio.

During a long drive in their van in late 2003, while on a short tour of cities in Texas, the members of Drop Trio (then Ian Varley, Nuje Blattel and Nino Batista) discussed ideas for a date to record their next record, the follow-up to their debut, 2003's Big Dipper. Deliberations eventually, and unintentionally, realized the idea of recording an entirely improvised record in the studio. They subsequently booked time in the renowned SugarHill Recording Studios for the date February 29, 2004 (which was in fact Leap Day, a part of the inspiration for the album's name). John Griffin of SugarHill, who had previously engineered the band's debut album, was called on once again for this ambitious session.

On February 29, 2004, at 10 AM, Ian Varley, Nuje Blattel, and Nino Batista rolled into SugarHill with dozens of instruments in tow. It took over four hours to set up the studio with all the instruments, electronics, and microphones that would be needed to produce the eventual two and a half hours of straight musical improvisation.

Some notable instrumental elements in the studio that day were a wooden recorder, kazoo, countless and highly varied percussion elements such as congas, bongos, rototoms, shakers, cymbals, a grand piano, a vintage Hammond B3 with vintage Leslie speaker to match, Rhodes piano, 4 string electric bass, 6 string electric guitar (custom tuned a perfect fourth lower than normal tuning), drum kit, a broken acoustic guitar that has over 75 handwritten signatures (from friends, ex-bandmates, and various other random people), guitar effects pedals, and pretty much "anything else that made noise in the studio that day...". It is of note that the album cover features a photograph of dozens of keys hanging from strings, which together are an informal and unique set of musical chimes used at SugarHill as part of their in-house instrument collection. The sound of these keys is heard at the very beginning and very ending of Leap.

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