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Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic

Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 9 March 1974

A FINE RECORD. And that sentence goes first because the fact that a band as perfectly poised as Steely Dan can reach their third album without, apparently, causing more than a ripple on the surface of the British rock public's awareness, is a disturbing phenomenon that demands flags flown against its continued persistence.

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