The duo’s first studio album in 20 years builds on firm foundations By Marty Hughley Portland Oregonian PORTLAND, Ore. — In a satirical letter posted on their Web site, Steely Dan principals Donald Fagen and Walter Becker announce their plan to “change the name of the band from ‘Steely Dan,’ which we are sick to […]
New CD is Pure, No-Frills Steely Dan
By Steve Morse Boston Globe Carlos Santana launched his comeback last year by using a fleet of famous guest stars, many of them young, on his ”Supernatural” album. No doubt more aging boomers will do the same — but an exception is Steely Dan, whose first studio album in 20 years keeps it all in […]
Reeling in the Years — Dan Back on Disc
By Steve James Reuters NEW YORK — This is the first millennial leap year since the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582, but for some rock fans this February 29 has even more significance. It’s the release date of the first new Steely Dan album in two decades — “Two Against Nature.” The disc’s debut […]
Album: ‘Two Against Nature’
By Richard Cromelin Los Angeles Times You were expecting grunge? A little New Wave? Some hip-hop and techno touches? Sorry. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen haven’t spent their 20-year vacation looking for ways to update the Steely Dan MO. Insular and still one of a kind, they make the decades disappear with an album that […]
Are you smart enough to like it?
Steely Dan: named after a giant dildo, and still stimulating after a 20-year break By Euan Ferguson The Guardian “I don’t know if it’s the greatest chord in the world,” drawls Donald Fagen, sprawled all lugubrious over a chi-chi sofa in a forgettable New York hotel, “but it’s not bad. It’s a pretty good chord, […]
The Big Album
By John Bungey The Times of London Two Against Nature (8/10) Steely Dan (RCA) Few bands from the Seventies can boast a back catalogue that has held up as well as Steely Dan’s. From intelligent pop through to jazzy rock, there’s scarcely an ounce of flab on their seven albums of the era. If the […]
‘Two Against Nature’ Review: No Static at All
By Sean Daly Washington City Paper Two Against Nature Steely Dan Giant Twenty years have passed since Donald Fagen and Walter Becker — the dynamically detached duo known as Steely Dan — last played it brutally cool together on a full studio album (1980’s “Gaucho”). But reeling off all those years hasn’t made the men […]
Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy
Their quietly obsessed fans have been waiting 20 years for Becker and Fagen to get back in the studio. So can the new album turn that heartbeat over again? By Andy Gill The Independent (UK) When Steely Dan vocalist Donald Fagen released his second solo album, “Kamakiriad,” in 1993, fans marvelled at the inordinate length […]
Steely Dan No Longer So Steely
By Kevin O’Hare Newhouse News Service With their first new studio album in 20 years set for release, two of the most enigmatic stars to ever grace the pop scene are starting to actually interact with the real world. That might not seem like a big deal to some, but when it comes to Donald […]
Steel Crazy After All These Years
By Jack Sawkin Glasgow Herald As someone once memorably remarked, dinosaurs weren’t exactly walking the earth the last time Steely Dan released an album of new material, but their tracks were still fresh. But, having been missing in action for most of the eighties and all of the nineties — their last studio album, Gaucho, […]
