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2000年に発表され、20年ぶりとなるスティーリー・ダンのオリジナルアルバム。
タイトルがロックっぽく、完成度の高い演奏と曲が並ぶ。
20年ぶりだというのに基本的には何も変わっていない。

強いて昔と変わったところを挙げるなら、リズムの面で若干薄くなったことと、20年の歳月が彼らにもたらした余裕のような柔らかい雰囲気だろう。
ジャケットを往年の名アルバム群と比べてみたとき、若干のダサさは大目に見たくなる充実作だ。
（麻路 稔）
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Never so much a band as the slyly crafted specter of one， Steely Dan’s mid-1990s ’return’ to live performance was as surprising as it was perverse. They’d previously toured only once， round about the era of Watergate， pet rocks， and Shaft. A half-decade after their concert comeback and a mere 19 years after Gaucho seemingly closed out their recording career， the jazz-pop conceit of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen deliberately dropped back into a recording landscape where they weren’t so much seasoned vets as alien ambassadors. Two Against Nature， indeed. The tack is instantly familiar: a musical/lyrical reconciliation of Monk and Newman， with familiar harmonic flourishes， nimble studio chops， and an icy， world-class cool， as willfully insulated from hip-hop and techno as it was from disco and Top 40. Less concerned with melodic hooks than a canny sophistication of mood and manner， Becker and Fagen never let a trite melody get in the way of a good story， whether their protagonists are plotting some nefarious obliquity (’Gaslighting Abby’)， Southern-fried incest (the deliciously funky ’Cousin DuPree’)， or bleakly confronting dashed expectations (’What a Shame About Me’). A little more musically languorous perhaps， its trademark cynicism now undercut by hints of sadness and regret， this is nonetheless a Steely Dan album worthy of the name， and like the best of them， one whose subtle charms reveal themselves in surprising ways. -Jerry McCulley
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