Djo’s tour in support of their upcoming album The Crux has taken Joe Keery and company to Australia, where they visited the talk show Triple J and, as per tradition, performed a cover of another artist’s music for “Like a Version,” in this case Haim’s hit “Gasoline.”
Keery said of the Women in Music Pt. III single, “Love that album. I think they’re such great artists and that they’re sisters who make music together. I have a big family and the song we play [“Basic Being Basic”], my sisters are singing on that, so I thought it’d be sorta cool to pay homage to them for that reason.”
“I think what I connect to is there’s a little edge in the song, and I feel like sometimes in my own personal life, I don’t allow myself to express that edge, but through the song, I feel like I can kind of live in that for a second, and it feels pretty good,” Keery said, adding that the first half of Djo’s version is “sonically” similar to their hit “End of Beginning” before it shifts into Haim’s style.
Djo’s third album, The Crux, arrives April 4, the same day the band embarks on a North American tour that kicks off in Portland; the band will be joined by Post Animal — Keery’s former group — on the trek.
“In a way, I feel like I kind of got dragged away from this group of friends and allowed myself to live in a different world for a while,” he told Rolling Stone in 2024 about leaving Post Animal to join the cast of Stranger Things. “But now where I’m at, I realized that group of people is one of the most important things in my life.”
The Crux marks the first full-length LP from Djo since 2022’s Decide, which included the viral single “End of Beginning.” “I’ve been so lucky to be on Stranger Things. That’s obviously touched a lot of people. But I wasn’t involved in the writing process, so to have something I actually wrote do that is a really unique experience,” he said about the song being embraced on TikTok before it was even released as a single.
From Rolling Stone US
