Morph The Cat
by Donald Fagen
  • Record Label: Reprise
  • Release Date: Mar 14, 2006
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 45 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 45
  3. Negative: 6 out of 45

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  1. FrankK
    Mar 21, 2006
    4
    Just like Dan, Fagen is at his best as a three and a half minute pop song performer. H-Gang, What I Do and the title tracks highlight an effort that otherwise embodies the overindulgent aspects of Aja & Goucho. Aside from these four songs, the rest is merely background music.

Awards & Rankings

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#32 Best Album of 2006
97
#97 Most Discussed Album of 2006
55
#55 Most Shared Album of 2006

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Los Angeles Times
    75
    At his best he spins these tales with a mix of literary craft and jazzman's cool, animating his narratives with vivid and colorful language. [5 Mar 2006]
  2. The Guardian
    100
    The album is imbued with a post-9/11 dread, which deters Fagen from recycling the nostalgia and Lynchian fantasy of his previous albums.
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  3. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    With its precisely calibrated funk grooves, exquisitely tasteful playing, and general air of blissed-out languor, Morph is firmly in the smoothed-out tradition of latter-day Dan discs like Gaucho. [17 Mar 2006, p.111]
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