Title: Two Against Nature
Product review: Steely Dan's harmonies, great lyrics, and tight musicianship are still kicking in this new and inventive CD, which isn't a re-run of their earlier stuff. It just gets better and better the more you listen to it. If you're stuck in the 70's and are looking for top-ten-type hits, then maybe this isn't for you, as the intelligence of jazz is present. As far as musicianship goes, check out the personnel on these tracks: Vinnie Colaiuta, Lou Marini, Gordon Gottleib, and Chris Potter, whose tenor solo on West of Hollywood is amazingly outrageous, modulating all over the place, and so descriptive of that driving, frenzied-but-cool energy that is LA. Hot damn! Buy this album - you won't be sorry. I haven't been cheered up more by a new CD in years!
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