Donald Fagen´s 1982 solo debut extends the sleek, smart pop craft of his work with Steely Dan into the realm of the concept album, taking the Dan´s penchant for intricate plotting, evocative narrative voices, and allusive imagery to the logical next step. Fagen´s connective thread is futurist nostalgia for the "New Frontier" as anticipated from the prosperous vantage point of late-´50s America. He romanticizes a brave new world of technology in the sultry diorama of "I.G.Y.," celebrating the coming glories of the Atomic Age. He then filters that view through his own suburban adolescence--a would-be seduction in a fallout shelter, the siren song of a graveyard-shift jazz DJ, a not-quite-hard-boiled noir adventure ("The Goodbye Look") that borrows its title from an early ´60s Ross MacDonald mystery. Song for song, the set´s a stunner and stands apart from Steely Dan thanks to a unique, poignant romanticism embodied in Fage