Josie
I’ve never really been much of a Steely Dan fan. I’ve only ever taken in a handful of their songs, but none of them ever really clicked with me in a significant way. But I am a fan of The Darcys, and the gentlemen of that band seem to fall distinctly on the other side of the Steely Dan fence. So much so that they went as far as covering the entirety of Steely Dan’s breakthrough 1977 record, Aja, as the second of three planned full-lengths making it out this year through their new home at Arts & Crafts.
As the story goes, the project came about after work on their sophomoric The Darcys had ground to a halt. Rather than hang in limbo and let the fires burn out, the band set out to half-seriously recreate Aja in their own melancholic image. In the release, the band’s Wes Marskell explains: “We did it because we could. And because we thought we couldn’t. It became as much an art project as an album.”
Aja is out today, surfacing in the same way that The Darcys made it out into the world: as a free digital download from the band’s website, and later as a limited edition 180-gram LP, if you’re into that sort of thing.
+MP3: The Darcys – Josie
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