Fcukers thrive on debut album ‘Ö’
The band bring a mix of club-ready house, indie sleaze attitude and glossy pop instincts on their first release.
★★★★☆
Photo: Mathieu Zazzo
Some bands spend years building momentum. Fcukers barely gave it three before hitting terminal velocity. The arrival of Ö marks the latest peak in a rise that’s been less “slow burn” and more detonation. Made up of Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis, the New York duo have been operating in overdrive since their 2024 EP Baggy$$ turned them into industry darlings and genuine word-of-mouth chaos agents in one go.
Early tracks like Bon Bon and Homie Don’t Shake didn’t just flirt with ‘Song of the Summer’ status; they practically weaponised it, soundtracking a season of sweaty basements and questionable decisions. Subsequently, the flexes have stacked up fast: from a 200-cap room at Baby’s All Right to arenas, festivals and support slots with everyone from LCD Soundsystem to HAIM, with pit stops at Glastonbury, Coachella and Primavera along the way.
Fcukers arrive with their debut album Ö like they’ve already outgrown the idea of a debut. There’s no tentative scene-setting here — Ö is loud, immediate and completely committed to the dancefloor.
This is a debut that skips the polite formalities and heads straight for the sweaty early hours — equal parts sleaze, shine and controlled chaos. Built on a foundation of thumping house beats, underground edge, electroclash attitude and a not-so-subtle obsession with hedonism, Ö feels like it was engineered for sticky floors and bad decisions.
There’s a deliberate tension running through the record: it wants to be messy, but it’s too well put together to fully fall apart. That’s not a flaw so much as the point. Every distorted beat, every nonchalant vocal from Wise lands with precision. She plays it cool to the point of near-detachment, drifting over the chaos like she’s seen it all before — and probably caused most of it.
Sonically, it sits somewhere between underground club culture and hyper-aware pop maximalism. You can hear the polish but you can also feel the grime underneath it. It’s that push-and-pull that keeps Ö from slipping into generic territory, even when it’s flirting with familiarity.
Across Ö, Fcukers treat genre less like a blueprint and more like something to tear through at full speed. The album jumps from electropop found on the hyper-polished chaos and maximalist gloss of L.U.C.K.Y to the drum and bass motif of Play Me and from the infectious, reggae-induced dancehall TTYGF, featuring rapper Skiifall, to the 90s house-inspired opener Beatback. This sets the album feeling less like a cohesive genre piece and more like a collage of everything happening at once on the dancefloor, yet it works.
Butterflies flutters in with a kind of nervous energy — skittering percussion, light-footed rhythms — leaning heavily into UK garage, with those shuffling beats and elastic basslines, before suddenly it’s flirting with something far more accessible. The hook opens up, brighter and cleaner, brushing up against radio-friendly synth pop without fully committing to it.
if you wanna party, come over to my house rides on a repetitive, chant-like structure. It’s less about progression and more about building a hypnotic, chaotic groove. It is pure indie sleaze revival energy — think LCD Soundsystem at their messiest, it’s as much attitude as it is song.
Shake It Up is all impulse, no overthinking—a punch of percussion and blunt-force rhythm built to hit fast and hard. It might not linger long after, but in the moment, it absolutely rips. I Like It Like That sees Fcukers doubling down on their club instincts; repetitive hooks, punchy beats, flashes of dub in the mix with that loose, bass-heavy bounce.
Lonely has a slight ring of PinkPantheress with a thumping four-on-the-floor pattern appearing on the chorus, before Getaway bites with a looped double bass and some breakbeats: faster, sharper and just slightly unhinged. Together, they capture that tipping point where the night is looking for one last, desperate burst of energy.
Compared to the rest of the album, Feel The Real is a blurred, comedown closer. The production softens, edges are less sharp, synths are more washed-out, and rhythms are less rigid, which will bring memories of 90s era trip hop and downtempo songs.
Ultimately, Ö is less about storytelling and more about sensation. By the time it’s over, Ö feels less like a debut and more like the aftermath of the euphoria of a night you only half remember: ears ringing, phone missing and a vague sense you had the time of your life. It’s loud, reckless, sweaty and weirdly addictive. You might not catch every detail, but you’ll feel the damage, and that’s the charm.
Fcukers have made a record that lives up to their name: messy, chaotic and impossible to fully clean up after. Like any great night out, it’s a bit of a blur, unapologetic and exactly the kind of fcukery you’ll probably sign up for again.
Ö is out now via Ninja Tune.