…contains 12 new songs written, recorded, and produced by Keery and Thein at Electric Lady Studios while they worked on ‘The Crux’, and completed months after the album’s release.
Musician and actor Joe Keery stakes his claim on the pop world with his third album as Djo, 2025’s swoon-worthy The Crux. The album, which follows 2020’s Twenty Twenty and 2022’s Decide, once again finds Keery indulging his pop passions while offering a fresh creative window on his persona as the loveable former high school jock-turned-righteous cool dude Steve Harrington on Stranger Things merely hints at.
Just as Keery’s trademark mullet and devilish smile as Steve conjure a kind of ’80 throwback charisma, his music as Djo has an equally evocative…
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…featuring alternate versions, live recordings, and a searing cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.”
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