Forget for a moment the album's surreal sonic perfection, its melodic and harmonic complexity - music so technically demanding its creators had to call in A-list session players to realize the sounds they heard in their heads but could not play, even ...more
The Daily Vault Album Reviews
For much of the 1970s, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen -- essentially the heart and soul of Steely Dan -- worked on fine-tuning the songwriting and sound that would make their group legendary. On their sixth album,Aja, they nailed it.Always using ...more
All Music Guide
Steely Dan hadn't been a real working band sincePretzel Logic, but withAja,Walter BeckerandDonald Fagen's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection ...more
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