Steely Dan - Two Against Nature (2000)
BAND/ARTIST: Steely Dan
- Title: Two Against Nature
- Year Of Release: 2000
- Label: Giant Records
- Genre: Jazz, Rock, Fusion
- Quality: FLAC (tracks, cue, log)
- Total Time: 51:30 min
- Total Size: 326 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Never so much a band as the slyly crafted specter of one, Steely Dan's mid-1990s "return" to live performance was as surprising as it was perverse. They'd previously toured only once, round about the era of Watergate, pet rocks, and Shaft. A half-decade after their concert comeback and a mere 19 years after Gaucho seemingly closed out their recording career, the jazz-pop conceit of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen deliberately dropped back into a recording landscape where they weren't so much seasoned vets as alien ambassadors. Two Against Nature, indeed. The tack is instantly familiar: a musical/lyrical reconciliation of Monk and Newman, with familiar harmonic flourishes, nimble studio chops, and an icy, world-class cool, as willfully insulated from hip-hop and techno as it was from disco and Top 40. Less concerned with melodic hooks than a canny sophistication of mood and manner, Becker and Fagen never let a trite melody get in the way of a good story, whether their protagonists are plotting some nefarious obliquity ("Gaslighting Abby"), Southern-fried incest (the deliciously funky "Cousin DuPree"), or bleakly confronting dashed expectations ("What a Shame About Me"). A little more musically languorous perhaps, its trademark cynicism now undercut by hints of sadness and regret, this is nonetheless a Steely Dan album worthy of the name, and like the best of them, one whose subtle charms reveal themselves in surprising ways.
Tracklist:
01 - Gaslighting Abbie
02 - What a Shame About Me
03 - Two Against Nature
04 - Janie Runaway
05 - Almost Gothic
06 - Jack of Speed
07 - Cousin Dupree
08 - Negative Girl
09 - West of Hollywood
Tracklist:
01 - Gaslighting Abbie
02 - What a Shame About Me
03 - Two Against Nature
04 - Janie Runaway
05 - Almost Gothic
06 - Jack of Speed
07 - Cousin Dupree
08 - Negative Girl
09 - West of Hollywood
Jazz | Rock | FLAC / APE
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