Steely Dan Aja Rare Japan Mobile Fidelity MFSL MINT- Audiophile GTFLD +lyrics
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Description
Steely Dan Aja
Vinyl pressed in Japan
Rare, Half-speed, Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs, Analogue, Audiophile pressing
MFSL/Warner Records - MFSL 1-036
Gatefold Cover is VG++ to Mint-, mostly Mint-, a few very minor corner and edge imperfections.
Vinyl is Mint- or better.
Includes Mint- lyric insert.
Rare, OUT OF PRINT, Remastered album.
"This was the last time this popular Australian band released an album that matched the earlier Sleeper Catcher and Diamantina Cocktail. With a mix of harmony-drenched pop tunes and unthreatening rockers, they appealed to a wide audience. This album features some of their most poignant lyrics. You can empathize with Glenn Shorrock when he earnestly sings about the albatross and the whales being his brothers in "Cool Change," this release's standout track. If you haven't heard "Lonesome Loser," you just weren't listening to AM radio in 1979Steely Dan hadn't been a real working band since Pretzel Logic, but with Aja, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock, Aja has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous Steely Dan records. Instead, it's a measured and textured album, filled with subtle melodies and accomplished, jazzy solos that blend easily into the lush instrumental backdrops. But Aja isn't just about texture, since Becker and Fagen's songs are their most complex and musically rich set of songs -- even the simplest song, the sunny pop of "Peg," has layers of jazzy vocal harmonies. In fact, Steely Dan ignores rock on Aja, preferring to fuse cool jazz, blues, and pop together in a seamless, seductive fashion. It's complex music delivered with ease, and although the duo's preoccupation with clean sound and self-consciously sophisticated arrangements would eventually lead to a dead end, Aja is a shining example of jazz-rock at its finest."
-ALLMUSIC.COM
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