It’s been nearly 20 years since Steely Dan released an album of new tunes–time aplenty for the duo to ponder perfectionism. By Wayne Robins Newsday NEW YORK — “What record company are we on, by the way?” Donald Fagen wants to know. “I’m not kidding.” You can excuse the Steely Dan man’s disorientation. Fagen and […]
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Back on Tracks
By J.D. Considine Baltimore Sun When last heard from, Steely Dan was in a stylish funk. The year was 1980, the album was Gaucho, and the sound was slick and soulful, full of lithe, danceable grooves but spiked with enough jazzy sophistication to satisfy the brainiest of listeners. Even so, there wasn’t a lot of […]
Back in the Mix
Bright, incredibly well-versed musicians Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, fresh from a two-decade hiatus, are finally ready to share some of their souvenirs. By J.D. Considine Baltimore Sun NEW YORK — We’ve all heard about the perks of rock stardom — the parties, the groupies, the readily available intoxicants. And getting on […]
Steely Dan’s Fresh Content
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 […]
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 […]
