Title: Kamakiriad II, plus some Aja
Product review: This disk blends pop and jazz so perfectly, you don't know where one ends and the other begins. All the songs are worthy and benefit from trademark lush production and elegant backup vocals. I sense a "dirty old man" theme on this disk, however. Songs such as Janie Runaway, Almost Gothic, and Cousin Dupree all have a get-the-little-young-girl theme (Too bad the Dan failed to include a jazzy sendup of "My Sharona"). There's nothing so incisive as Black Friday, or lovely pop like Dirty Work; instead, you have well crafted pop/jazz with interesting lyrics, beautiful horns/sax, and Fagen's wry nasal musings on later life. The bottom-of-the-barrel fin-de-siecle of 11 Tracks of Whack has been softly transformed into a reminisced horniness. Bottom Line: A worth addition to your Steely Dan collection, unless you hated Kamakiriad.
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