Steely Dan - Katy Lied (2025 Remaster) 1975

Исполнитель: Steely Dan
Альбом: Katy Lied (2025 Remaster)
Жанр: Pop Rock
Год: (2025) 1975
Страна: USA (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York)
Лейбл: Geffen
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR14
Разрядность: 24bit / 192kHz Stereo
Размер: 1,43 GB
Инфо: wiki
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Katy Lied, Steely Dan's fourth album, was notably recorded after Walter Becker and Donald Fagen decided to stop touring and dissolve "Steely Dan" as a working band to instead function as a Becker/Fagen-plus-session-players project. While a few folks remained from their last touring lineup—founding guitarist Denny Dias and recently recruited guns-for-hire Jeff Porcaro (on drums) and Michael McDonald (on inimitable vocals)—more than 17 other players and singers were credited on the sessions for Katy Lied. While this number pales in comparison to the 40-plus people who played on Aja just two years later, it was a clear declaration that Steely Dan had decided that "the best person for the job" was more important than "these are the five people we work with because that's the band." (Few things say "let's get the best" more overtly than a session list that includes Rick Derringer, Hal Blaine, Phil Woods, Larry Carlton, and Victor Feldman.)

While Katy Lied announced a transition into Steely Dan's full-time studio-rat phase, it also marked the end of their prime early period. While the band's debut (Can't Buy A Thrill) is widely viewed as a tentative outlier in their discography, the unofficial triptych of Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, and Katy Lied represents "old era" Steely Dan at their apex, before their airless pursuit of perfectionism permanently transformed their sound on albums like Aja and Gaucho (and, to a less successful degree, The Royal Scam). To be sure, Katy Lied is the least band-oriented of that early trilogy, but is still an excellent representation of that warmly dynamic—and definitively more rocking—approach to jazz-rock. There's much more emotional resonance and empathy lyrically and a little less detached cynicism here than the band would be justly accused of in their later years. Yes, the verses are still pretty cryptic, but they still pack a punch; the post-apocalyptic tenor of "Black Friday" probably rings more true in these modern times while the epically strange "Doctor Wu" is the band at what may be their lyrical zenith. (Of course, the former sits atop a bouncy, upbeat groove, while the latter is gentle and atmospheric, showing that irony was nonetheless in ample supply here.) The second half (with the exception of "Any World [That I'm Welcome To]") is a little weaker than the largely unimpeachable first half, but Katy Lied nonetheless stands out as a superb example of Steely Dan at their very best of all their iterations.

Трэклист:

01. Black Friday
02. Bad Sneakers
03. Rose Darling
04. Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
05. Doctor Wu
06. Everyone's Gone To The Movies
07. Your Gold Teeth II
08. Chain Lightning
09. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
10. Throw Back The Little Ones

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