Credits:

Djo

Description:

Musician and actor Joe Keery stakes his claim on the pop world with his third album as Djo, 2025s swoon-worthy The Crux. The album, which follows 2020s Twenty Twenty and 2022s 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 Keerys trademark mullet and devilish smile as Steve conjure a kind of 80 throwback charisma, his music as Djo has an equally evocative quality. These are synthy, vintage 70s- and 80s-inspired pop anthems that vibrate with vinyl-era stardust. In fact, Keery often so expertly captures the aesthetic vibe of the sound hes going for that his songs might fall into pastiche if they werent so dang catchy and compelling. These are the kind of immediately infectious and mood-capturing anthems that stick w