Joe Keery nearly lost new Djo album in an Uber: “I was feeling sick”
Actor and musician Joe Keery has revealed in an interview with French streaming platform Deezer that he almost lost his latest album while riding in the back of an Uber.
The star of Stranger Things and Fargo, who records music under the moniker Djo, said that he had taken a trip with the taxi service to get pizza in New York City, and while getting out of the cab, he realised that he had left his hard drive containing The Crux in the vehicle.
Speaking to the streaming service, he said that the hard drive contained “all of the songs – not even just the songs that are on the album but like a bunch of shit.”
Keery was initially unable to call the driver because his phone was dead, so he instinctively began to chase a car down the street, saying, “It’s a situation where I’m running, and then the car hits a red light, and then I’m getting closer, and then it drives away and hits another red light.”
He would then realise the car he had been chasing a different car, but was eventually able to contact the driver of the car he had been in, and after arranging to meet him he was reunited with the hard drive.
Keery said: “[The hard drive] had fallen under the seat luckily and I paid him $100 and he said, ‘Okay I’ll take it over to you’ and he brought it back to me and luckily nobody had stolen it,” adding that “I was feeling sick, ill from all the running that I had been doing.”
In Far Out’s review of The Crux, reviewer Dale Maplethorpe gave the album three stars, saying that “it is well worth a listen, but it often lacks bite,” and that “bridging the gaps between these glimmers of brilliance are songs that don’t seem to know what realm they exist in.”
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