I hate to trot out the "what happened?" cliche but what happened? Fagen used to be able to write songs. This is a collection of grooves with indescriminate words tacked on and thus is indistinguishable from his last solo album and will probably be indistinguishable from the next Steely Dan album. Can't Buy a Thrill and Katy Lied were collections of superlative songs performed by exciting musicians. Two Against Nature is Donald and Walter cooly jamming for 45 minutes, or an hour. Who knows; I stopped paying attention after about ten minutes.