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Djo (aka Joe Keery) Announces New Album and Tour, Shares New Song “Basic Being Basic”

The Crux Due Out April 4 via AWAL; Keery Also Stars in Stranger Things

Jan 24, 2025 Photography by Neil Krug

Djo (aka actor Joe Keery from Stranger Things, Fargo, and Free Guy) has announced a new album, The Crux, and shared its lead single, “Basic Being Basic,” via a lyric video. He’s also announced some tour dates. The Crux is due out April 4 via AWAL. Below, check out “Basic Being Basic,” followed by the album details (including the front and back cover art) and tour dates.

Keery had this to say about “Basic Being Basic” in a press release: “It’s kind of a shot fired to anyone who’s trying to be of the moment.”

The Crux is the follow-up to 2022’s DECIDE and his 2019-released debut solo album, TWENTY TWENTY. Keery was previously a part of the Chicago psych rock band Post Animal, which will be joining Djo on tour.

Keery co-produced The Crux with his long-time collaborator Adam Thein. While his previous albums were synth-based bedroom recordings, the new one was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City and is more influenced by late ’60s and early ’70s pop.

The press release explains the album in more detail and how it ties into the front and back cover artwork: “Although the songs are rich with specificity, the album plays like a movie soundtrack, where the listener can easily align with a character, situation, or emotion. And this is, in part, how Keery frames the album’s concept through its art—a collaboration with Neil Krug—as a hotel where all of its guests are transient, and at a spiritual or emotional crossroads.”

Djo will perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next Tuesday (January 28), where he will also be interviewed.

Keery has played Steve Harrington on Stranger Things since its first episode. The fifth and final season is expected this year on Netflix. He also played Deputy Gator Tillman in the fifth season of Fargo and Walter “Keys” McKey in the 2021 sci-fi/action/comedy Free Guy (also starring Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer). He also plays Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus in the experimental musical biopic concert film Pavements, which premiered at the Venice film festival last year.

The Crux Tracklist:

1. Lonesome Is a State of Mind
2. Basic Being Basic
3. Link
4. Potion
5. Delete Ya
6. Egg
7. Fly
8. Charlie’s Garden
9. Gap Tooth Smile
10. Golden Line
11. Back On You
12. Crux

Front cover artwork.
Front cover artwork.
Back cover artwork.
Back cover artwork.

Djo: Back On You Tour Dates:

*All North American, UK and EU tour dates w/ Post Animal

February 06 - Auckland, New Zealand - Laneway Festival
February 08 - Brisbane, Australia - Laneway Festival
February 09 - Sydney, Australia - Laneway Festival
February 12 - Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theatre
February 14 - Melbourne, Australia - Laneway Festival
February 15 - Adelaide, Australia - Laneway Festival
February 16 - Perth, Australia - Laneway Festival
April 04 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall
April 05 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall
April 07 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
April 08 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
April 10 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
April 11 - Indio, CA - Coachella
April 18 - Indio, CA - Coachella
April 19 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
April 21 - Salt Lake City, UT - Rockwell at the Complex
April 23 - Denver, CO - The Mission Ballroom
April 25 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee
April 26 - Saint Paul, MN - Palace Theatre
April 28 - Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
April 29 - Toronto, ON - History
May 01 - Washington, DC - The Anthem
May 02 - Boston, MA - Roadrunner
May 03 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall
May 05 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
May 06 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
June 01 - Dublin, Ireland - 3Olympia
June 02 - Glasgow, UK - O2 Academy
June 03 - Manchester, UK - Academy
June 06 - London, UK - O2 Forum Kentish Town
June 10 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Poolen
June 11 - Oslo, Norway - Sentrum Scene
June 13 - Stockholm, Sweden - Annexet
June 15 - Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands - Best Kept Secret Festival
June 16 - Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
June 17 - Berlin, Germany - Huxleys
June 18 - Warsaw, Poland - Progresja
June 20 - Scheebel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
June 21 - Tuttlingen, Germany - Southside Festival
June 23 - Paris, France - ELYSEE MONTMARTRE
June 24 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso

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