Walter Becker

Donald Fagen

The Years Before Steely Dan

Full Cord

Stephen Mougin

Reelin' In The Years

Misery And The Blues (Live)

The Nightfly (Live)

The Nightfly: Live

Walk Between Raindrops / New Frontier / I.G.Y. (Live)

New Frontier / I.G.Y. (Live)

I.G.Y. (Live)

Remastered from the Archives

Brooklyn

Reelin' in the Early Years

Black Friday

Sunken Condos

I'm Not The Same Without You

Any World

Old Regime

The Nightfly

Sun Mountain

Kamakiriad

Walter Becker & Donald Fagen 's Mock Gurgle Song

Soul Train

Morph The Cat (U.S Version)

H Gang

Donald Fagen's 1982 solo debut extends the sleek, smart pop craft of his work with Steely Dan into the realm of the concept album, taking the Dan's penchant for intricate plotting, evocative narrative voices, and allusive imagery to the logical next step. Fagen's connective thread is futurist nostalgia for the "New Frontier" as anticipated from the prosperous vantage point of late-'50s America. He romanticizes a brave new world of technology in the sultry diorama of "I.G.Y.," celebrating the coming glories of the Atomic Age. He then filters that view through his own suburban adolescence--a would-be seduction in a fallout shelter, the siren song of a graveyard-shift jazz DJ, a not-quite-hard-boiled noir adventure ("The Goodbye Look") that borrows its title from an early '60s Ross MacDonald mystery. Song for song, the set's a stunner and stands apart from Steely Dan thanks to a unique, poignant romanticism embodied in Fagen's yearning "Maxine" and a creamy update of Dion & the Belmonts' "Ruby Baby." 


Any major dude will tell you that this immaculate jazz-pop collection sounds like it could have been recorded mere months, not 11 years, after The Nightfly. A Steely Dan LP in all but name, Fagen and Walter Becker offer killer horn charts, lite-funk grooves, airy guitar riffs and hipster sci-fi lyrics. 


There are no surprises in sound and style on Morph the Cat, Donald Fagen's long-awaited third solo album, nor should any be expected — ever since Steely Dan's 1980 masterwork, Gaucho, his work, either on his own or with longtime collaborator Walter Becker

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