Fcukers debut Ӧ is Equal Parts Catchy and Romantic

Benjamin Kenyon

Rap/Hip-Hop Journalist

New York City duo Fcukers has been building a steady amount of buzz over the last couple of years. Their first EP was released in 2024, and in late 2025, they opened a long stretch of US shows for Tame Impala. On March 27, they released Ӧ, their debut album. 

Fcukers consists of vocalist Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis, who handles most of the group’s instrumentation and production. Both were in successful indie bands but desired to make music they felt more passionate about, ditching their rock backgrounds to dive into electronic music. Ben Scharf, drummer, was the third founding member who has since departed from the group. Superproducer Kenneth Blume (known to many as Kenny Beats) assisted the group with Ӧ. 

Ӧ is the group’s follow-up to their 2024 EP, Baggy$$. The album is 28 minutes (that’s right, a sub 30-minute album!) of ethereal, pulsating electropop music. There’s not a dull moment. Wise consistently delivers breathy, almost whisper-like vocals that seamlessly blend with Walker Lewis’s pulsating house beats. The songs are largely in the same vein while avoiding redundancy. 

The project’s second track, “L.U.C.K.Y” and “Butterflies,” is a clear standout. “L.U.C.K.Y” features beautiful layered vocals from Wise in a hypnotic introduction before delving into a chorus that would fit right in on Daft Punk’s Discovery. It’s a full-blown earworm. The song’s primary refrain, “L-U-C-K-Y, I’m lucky / Y-O-U are mine cause I’m lucky” is brilliantly simple, a quality much of the album shares. “Butterflies”, the next track, also follows this ethos of simplicity. The chorus is equally intoxicating. Both are great examples of bubblegum electronic music, which makes them interesting and unique as love songs that both feel like true emotional expressions without sacrificing a second of catchiness. 

“if you wanna party, come over to my house” is more of a straight-up dance song, showing the group’s ability to oscillate between emotionally driven love songs and party anthems with ease. “Feel The Real”, the outro, is the biggest departure sonically from the rest of the album. It plays like trip-hop, substituting the house beats and prominent synth sounds that make up much of the album for strings and a laid-back drum loop. Wise proves she’s not a one-trick pony, as she seems to be channeling her more indie-rock background with the way she delivers her vocals. 

Despite the project’s brevity, Fcukers display a talent for diverse songwriting and composition. Some tracks stand out from others, but none drag, and all feel cohesive, despite the different tonal and sonic approaches found throughout Ӧ. While the Baggy$$ was an enjoyable and fruitful proof of concept for Fcukers and the type of music they make, Ӧ goes in far more directions and shows progression in the group’s stylings. It’s a fantastic debut that only makes me more excited to see where Fcukers goes from here. 

While not exactly in the same lane, fans of performers like PinkPantheress, Magdalena Bay, or Charli Xcx, to name a few, can find things they enjoy in Fcukers. 

Recommended Songs:

L.U.C.K.Y

Butterflies

Lonely