The Darcys

Add Date: January 24 

Artist: The Darcys 

Album: Aja 

Label: Arts & Crafts 

Genre: Rock, psych pop 

Comments: Toronto band The Darcys have been quite busy; it's only been a few months since the band released its eponymous debut back in October, and they've got another original full-length planned for later in 2012. The middle record in what will, ultimately, be a trilogy is Aja, The Darcys' reinterpretation of Steely Dan's 1977 classic.

I'm by no means a Steely Dan aficionado, but from my limited knowledge of that band, it seems that The Darcys take the jazz-rock flare of the original and turn it into a psychedelic pop-rock jaunt. Start with "Peg" or "Home at Last".