Pheonix Interview: Yousef Returns Home with New Album ‘9 Moor Drive’

Intelligent, Autobiographical Techno that pushes the boundaries of the genres.

29 Nov 2019

“colourful and complicated” themes include his father leaving, and eventually getting kicked out of the house. “Learning how to grow up very fast and living on my own when I was 14 with my two brothers.”

Just over a year ago Yousef Zaher, better known by his artist mononym Yousef, was driving with his wife down the street in Liverpool where he grew up in the 90s. Hit with the full force of nostalgia, both good and bad, he felt compelled to channel this emotion into an album named after the street: 9 Moor Drive.

9 Moor Drive is a beautiful, rare and deeply personal concept-led album within the dance music genre, imprinted with the essence of 90s Liverpool and as vibrant and diverse as the city that inspired it.