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Two Against Nature

The comeback album: the first new Steely Dan studio record in nearly twenty years, and the winner of Album of the Year.
Steely Dan, 2000

Released
29 February 2000
Recorded
1997-1999
Label
Giant
Producer
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen
Length
51:24

Recorded between 1997 and 1999 and produced by Becker and Fagen themselves, it reached 6 in the United States and went platinum. At the 2001 Grammys it won Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Engineered Album and, for Cousin Dupree, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group. It has a Metacritic score of 77, and Christgau gave it an A, while Pitchfork scored it 1.6 out of 10. The band promoted it with a tour in 2000, part of which was broadcast on the SFX Radio Network.

Track listing

  1. Gaslighting Abbie5:53
  2. What a Shame About Me5:17
  3. Two Against Nature6:17
  4. Janie Runaway4:09
  5. Almost Gothic4:10
  6. Jack of Speed6:17
  7. Cousin Dupree5:26
  8. Negative Girl5:34
  9. West of Hollywood8:21

More from Steely Dan

Can't Buy a Thrill (1972), Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), Pretzel Logic (1974), Katy Lied (1975), The Royal Scam (1976), Aja (1977), Gaucho (1980)

Sources

  1. Two Against Nature, Wikipedia
  2. Steely Dan 2000 Tour, SFX Radio Network, Internet Archive