"The Timeless Relevance of Steely Dan's Jazz-Rock Sound in Today's World"

Journalist Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay explore the genius of Steely Dan in their book Quantum Criminals, which takes a deep dive into the strange world that Donald Fagen and Walter Becker built together. Pappademas theorizes that Steely Dan's revival is due to their endless meme-ability and the fact that our fast-warming world is more Steely Dannish than it's ever been. The book explores the unsavory, untrustworthy, and unlikeable L.A. characters that Steely Dan created, and how they were ahead of their time.