The album probably ranks somewhere in the middle of the pack in the Steely Dan catalog, which is high praise. (For comparison, its songs are much more memorable than those on Everything Must Go ...

There’s no story anywhere in music like Steely Dan. The Seventies jazz-rock masterminds have gone in and out of style over the years, but they’ve never been more popular, more influential ...

I mention this because I am fully aware that Aja – Steely Dan’s sixth album – is beloved ... They decided to jettison the other players and go into the studio where they could simply work ...