Zedd has shared his third studio album, Telos.
The German producer’s latest release on Interscope Records gathers an eclectic cast of features, including John Mayer, Muse, Remi Wolf, Dora Jar, Bea Miller, the olllam, and vocals from the late Jeff Buckley. Zedd’s collaborative track with the latter, “Dream Brother,” marks the only time Buckley’s estate has given an artist the rights to his work. Buckley died in Memphis, Tennessee in 1997 at 30 years old.
Shortly after the release of Telos, Zedd’s annual Zedd in the Park festival is also set to return to Los Angeles on September 6th and 7th. Since he first introduced the festival in 2018, it has sold out every year, which has resulted in an expansion in 2024 into a two-day event. Zedd has also scheduled dates in New York, Boston, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, and a final closing show at Colorado’s iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
Zedd first introduced Telos at EDC Las Vegas this year, continuing to tease the music during a performance at Lollapalooza. He says that the title for his new record was drawn from the Greek language.
“‘Telos’ has multiple meanings, one of them being ‘accomplishment’ or ‘completion of human art,’” Zedd shared. “I’ve always dreamed of creating an album that, 30 years on, I can look back and be incredibly proud of. That will be just as amazing then as it is right now, because it’s not based on trends or sound design that might fall off — it’s based on music, just like the albums that shaped me growing up that I still adore to this day. With Telos, I created something I didn’t think I was capable of — it just took a bit of time to get there.”
