FCUKERS

About FCUKERS:

fcukers’ explosive ascendance began downtown in New York City. In a fast-track three years spent amassing millions of streams, playing Glastonbury, Primavera, Lollapalooza, and Coachella, and supporting LCD Soundsystem and Tame Impala in arenas, the band earned BBC Radio 1’s Future Artist of the Month and spots on both Spotify and Amazon’s Artists to Watch lists. Audiences worldwide crave the party fugue state their riotous live shows are built to create. Now, fcukers are releasing their debut album, Ö.

The genre-bending album collages dub, UK garage, trip-hop, and 2000s hip-hop, with modern sounds spontaneously merged in unique and measured ways. Minimal arrangements keep the tracks focused and direct, paired with the band’s staple mantra-like lyrics. Ö plays like a DJ set, taking the listener on a wild, metaphorical night out.

While on the West Coast, during the week between Coachella sets, the band grabbed coffee with producer Kenneth Blume (fka Kenny Beats). At his studio, they played a track they’d been considering for the album, “Feel the Real.” Unprompted, Blume suggested Wise and Lewis get in the room and just play. Within an hour, they had something — and Ö’s first single, “L.U.C.K.Y.,” was born. Blume cleared his schedule.

When fcukers returned to the studio Monday morning, “Play Me” was the first track laid down and cut within an hour. In two whirlwind weeks, with Blume bringing in heavy hitters like Dylan Brady (100 gecs) and Tom Norris (Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, The Weeknd) to produce and mix, Ö was essentially complete.

In late 2022, Shanny Wise met LA-born Jackson Walker Lewis in her native Lower East Side of Manhattan. Introduced by a mutual friend — both formerly in indie rock bands — their collaborative potential was immediate. Lewis was DJing most nights downtown, spinning the house music he grew up on: Armand Van Helden, DJ Sneak, Todd Terry, and others from the era. Wise, meanwhile, was writing and experimenting with electronic music herself.

They began meeting regularly, at first weekly, without urgency or expectation — making beats, experimenting across genres, building a disco track here, a techno loop there, ideating and iterating until it clicked.

The band’s first released track, “Mothers,” recorded in Lewis’s apartment, inspired their debut live show at Baby’s All Right — delivering what Paper Magazine called “an electric live performance, pumping up the whole room.” The band seemed to spring fully formed, never wavering in identity.

Lewis pounded the keyboard. A close friend danced topless at the back of the stage. The tightly packed crowd never stopped jumping as Wise’s hypnotic vocals cut through commanding beats and booming drums. The response was palpable and galvanic — setting fcukers’ fate in motion.