deacon blues, the darcys (steely dan cover)
i’ve felt a bit disconnected from everything lately. i’ve felt tired and misplaced and uninterested in mostly everything. it’s such an odd thing to come across when i’m so impossibly, happily in love.
people go through patches of haziness. it happens. it’s temporary.
one thing that i’ve been disconnected with, in particular, has been music. whenever my boyfriend asks me what i want to listen to, i never have a preference. i’m alarmingly apathetic lately, it’s so odd. i’ve picked up a lot of great music lately and nothing’s really stuck with me in ways that i know it should.
i spent about 80% of my childhood car rides listening to steely dan. my dad is a fanatic. he’s not like, obsessed with fagen and becker or anything, but his show count is in the three digits. he really loves the music that much. i’ve seen them over ten times (including internationally, i was really fortunate growing up and my dad liked to include me in a lot of that stuff). i know more steely dan songs than songs by any other artist and, over the past few years, i’ve had to awkwardly grow into the truth that i don’t actually like steely dan very much. it’s just not in my taste.
the darcys just released their own version of the steely dan album, aja. i don’t think anyone will ever appreciate this in the way that i do. like, these are all songs that i grew up with and know so intimately and they’re being presented to me for the first time in a way that i’m genuinely attracted to. it’s such a twisted, sweet, nostalgic feeling.
they’re giving downloads of the album away for free on their website. i haven’t genuinely written anything on here in months and this stupid album is thrilling me. give it a shot.