Title: Insipid, pale, monochromatic and forgettable.
Product review: A disappointing and insipid and lacklustre and very forgettable CD. That was how "Two Against Nature" came across to me. I have long been a fan and admirer of Steely Dan but I have concluded that they reached their zenith with Aja circa 1977 and have been on a long day's journey into night ever since. It has been downhill for these erstwhile "trend setters" ever since. I have listened to this album a good five times trying to like it but alas, I cannot. This CD might make a good Frisbee. Steely Dan's unique combination of puckish sarcasm and satire coupled with exquisitely beautiful musical strains and melodies and arrangements were ubiquitous in their earlier albums yet are nowhere to be found in this latest work. Thank you, anyway, to Becker and Fagen for your timeless and beautiful works of the 70's. Great artists are judged more severely when they err and turn out a real stinker only because they have been so deeply respected in the past.
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