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.
Donald Fagen
The Nightfly
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AllMusic Review by Jason Ankeny
Track Listing
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1 | Donald Fagen | 06:05 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
2 | Donald Fagen | 03:40 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
3 | Donald Fagen | 05:38 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
4 | Donald Fagen | 03:50 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
5 | Donald Fagen | 06:23 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
6 | Donald Fagen | 05:45 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
7 | Donald Fagen | 04:47 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
8 | Donald Fagen | 02:38 | SpotifyAmazon |