Steely Dan - Gaucho (1980) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2010] PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, originally released by MCA Records. The sessions for Gaucho represent the band's typical penchant for studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. To record the album, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far exceeded the original monetary advance given by the record label. In 1982, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording and received Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Aja was cool, relaxed, and controlled; it sounded deceptively easy. Its follow-up, Gaucho, while sonically similar, is its polar opposite: a precise and studied record, where all of the seams show. Gaucho essentially replicates the smooth jazz-pop of Aja, but with none of that record's dark, seductive romance or elegant aura. Instead, it's meticulous and exacting; each performance has been rehearsed so many times that it no longer has any emotional resonance. Furthermore, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's songs are generally labored, only occasionally reaching their past heights, like on the suave "Babylon Sisters," "Time Out of Mind," and "Hey Nineteen." Still, those three songs are barely enough to make the remainder of the album's glossy, meandering fusion worthwhile.

Tracklist:

01 - Babylon Sisters
02 - Hey Nineteen
03 - Glamour Profession
04 - Gaucho
05 - Time Out Of Mind
06 - My Rival
07 - Third World Man

DSD Transferred from analogue master tapes by Manabu Matsumura (Universal Studio Mastering).
Universal Japan # UIGY-9039


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