Joe Keery Left His Hard Drive in an Uber with His Whole Djo Album on It

Joe Keery was on the crux of losing his latest Djo album.

In an April 8 interview with Deezer, the Stranger Things actor was asked about an unexpected moment that happened when working on his new album The Crux from his music alter ego Djo — and it was how the album was almost lost in the back of an Uber.

Keery, 32, took an Uber to grab a slice of pizza in New York City while his parents were visiting. Upon exiting the car, he “immediately realized” that the hard drive that contained his new album was missing. Keery said that it had “all of the songs — not even just the songs that are on the album but like a bunch of s—.”

The “End of Beginning” singer took out his phone to contact the Uber they took, but his phone had died. He then saw a car driving and started chasing after it.

“It’s situation where I’m running and then the car hits a red light and then I’m getting closer, I’m getting closer and then it drives away and hits another red light,” he recalled.

“I’m, like, panting and then it takes a turn and I go down and I finally make it. I’m like [Keery mimes knocking] on this guy’s window.” The car slammed the brakes and Keery approached the driver to find out it’s a different Uber, leaving him “distraught.”

“I have to, like, again run because I’m so scared that somebody’s just going to get into this Uber and see this hard drive and be like, ‘Sick this is a hard drive with a bunch of stuff.’ ” The “Runner” singer couldn’t recall if the hard drive was password-protected.

He went back to the hotel to charge his phone and as soon as it had enough power in it, he attempted to contact the Uber driver. “Also I’m exhausted so I was feeling sick, ill from all the running that I had been doing, like sprinting and the adrenaline.”

Luckily, Keery’s Uber driver responded to him. “[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.”

Keery previously described his new album, which dropped on April 4, as “a hotel housing guests who are all, in one way or another, at crossroads in their life,” per Pitchfork. Rolling Stone‘s review of The Crux said it is the “best music of his career,” calling him “anything but basic” — a reference to his song “Basic Being Basic.”

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Financial Times also praised Keery’s new album. “The songs are light on their feet. They skip across previous eras of music, including The Beatles and west coast psychedelia, without turning into costume drama.”

Adding: “Kerry’s vocals go from mellow murmurs to a more declamatory mode. Yes, he can really sing. His songwriting hits the mark too.”

The Crux is available to stream now.