by Donald Fagen
Release Date: 08 May 2012
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: warner Vinyl
£32.99
Donald Fagen The Nightfly Limited 180gram Vinyl LP
Overview
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 (one of the two masterminds behind Steely Dan, the seminal jazz-pop band of the '70s) describes the songs as representative of the kinds of fantasies he entertained as an adolescent during the late 1950s and 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.
Featured Tracks
I. G. Y.
Green Flower Street
Ruby Baby
Maxine
New Frontier
The Nightfly
The Goodbye Look
Walk Between Raindrops
Release Date: 01 October 2021
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: UMC
£24.99
Release Date: 08 December 2017
Format: Boxed Set Vinyl
Label: Rhino
£74.99
