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What is interesting about "Questions" is that the music starts to soften without mellowing as the CD continues. The first songs are ruled by hard beats, jawbreaker samples and intense bass work. For example, the title of the hard-hitting "Surprise, Surprise" is more than just creative use of a comma. It signifies the look you get on your face when you realize that the lyrics in the song don't even have to be there...
...shift starts to kick into gear with the fourth track, "Cut to the Chase." While still brandishing good bass playing and skillful tone variations, this song adds one more thing--real violin music...
...title suggests, Zooropa is both a reflection of and a reaction to Zoo TV, which uses giant video screens, satellite technology and automobiles swinging from cranes to evoke the surrealist, fast-forward distortion of the digitalized global village. In the title track, garbled voices, piano and a pulsing bass emerge from a haze of static like a radio receiver tuning in to a distant signal...
Kamakiriad is worth the wait. Produced by Becker, who also pitches in on bass and solo guitar, the album picks up where Gaucho and The Nightfly left off and goes one step further, meshing Fagen's urbanely elliptic lyrics with the sonic sass and snap of Steely Dan. The faithful will be glad to know that Becker and Fagen are already writing songs together for a new album, and plans are under way for a Steely Dan tour this summer. Meanwhile, Kamakiriad continues the Steely Dan legacy while deftly sidestepping the quicksand of nostalgia...
From the streamlined funk of Tomorrow's Girls to the bouncy saunter of Countermoon, the songs find a groove and gather momentum as breezy vocals and serpentine horn charts glide over a swinging rhythm section. Trans-Island Skyway builds from a muttering bass line and ice-cool finger snaps to an exhilarating joyride that derives part of its thrill from the danger lurking around the next bend. When Fagen sings, "Strap in tight cause it's a long sweet ride," it's like speeding in a convertible with the top down...