Twenty Twenty: Joe Keery, who you may also recognize from the show “Stranger Things,” began playing music in his teens after co-opting his sister’s guitar, but it was during his college years at DePaul University in Chicago that he formed his first band and began to pursue music seriously.
That band was Post Animal, a heavy psych-rock outfit that released a self-titled EP and two subsequent albums via Polyvinyl.
They also toured with artists like Twin Peaks, Wavves, and Cage The Elephant and played a number of US festivals.
In 2019, with no announcement or fanfare, Keery’s solo project Djo was unveiled not with a single but a lush, self-reflective, layered 12-track full-length album titled Twenty Twenty.
“Joe Keery built a carnival. The resonance of each riff or beat is not new but redesigned and reshaped into the beauty it is today.
The face of psych or alternative mirrored through his own design, revealing a person who shouldn’t be underestimated,” said Rodeo Mag.
Despite the album being released under the radar and without a label, fans found their way to it, and Twenty Twenty has now seen more than 200 million streams to date.
Track Listings:
- Mutual Future (Repeat)
- Just Along for the Ride
- Tentpole Shangrila
- Total Control
- Mortal Projections
- BNBG
- Ring
- Flash Mountain
- Personal Lies
- Roddy
- Chateau (Feel Alright)
- Showtime
