Donald Fagen - The Nightfly ( VINYL 05-08-2012 )

A portrait of the artist as a young man, The Nightfly is a wonderfully evocative reminiscence of Kennedy-era American life; in the liner notes, Donald Fagen describes the songs as representative of the kinds of fantasies he entertained as an adolescent during the late '50s/early '60s, and he conveys the tenor of the times with some of his most personal and least obtuse material to date. Continuing in the smooth pop-jazz mode favored on the final Steely Dan records, The Nightfly is lush and shimmering, produced with cinematic flair by Gary Katz; romanticized but never sentimental, the songs are slices of suburbanite soap opera, tales of space-age hopes (the hit "I.G.Y.") and Cold War fears (the wonderful "The New Frontier," a memoir of fallout-shelter love) crafted with impeccable style and sophistication.

CONDITION: NEW

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A

A1 I.G.Y. 6:05
A2 Green Flower Street 3:40
A3 Ruby Baby 5:38
A4 Maxine 3:50

SIDE B

B1 New Frontier 6:23
B2 The Nightfly 5:45
B3 The Goodbye Look 4:47
B4 Walk Between Raindrops 2:38