{"id":126,"date":"2026-04-07T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2026-06-15T03:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:39:02","slug":"album-review-o-by-fcukers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/album-review-o-by-fcukers\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: \u00d6 by Fcukers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&nbsp;\u04e6, their debut album.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fcukers consists of vocalist Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis, who handles most of the group\u2019s 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&nbsp;<em>\u04e6<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u04e6&nbsp;<\/em>is the group\u2019s follow-up to their 2024 EP,&nbsp;<em>Baggy$$<\/em>. The album is 28 minutes (that\u2019s right, a sub 30-minute album!) of ethereal, pulsating electropop music. There\u2019s not a dull moment. Wise consistently delivers breathy, almost whisper-like vocals that seamlessly blend with Walker Lewis\u2019s pulsating house beats. The songs are largely in the same vein while avoiding redundancy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fcukers - &amp;apos;L.U.C.K.Y&amp;apos; (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i3wir8dBDb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project\u2019s second track, \u201cL.U.C.K.Y\u201d and \u201cButterflies,\u201d is a clear standout. \u201cL.U.C.K.Y\u201d features beautiful layered vocals from Wise in a hypnotic introduction before delving into a chorus that would fit right in on Daft Punk\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Discovery<\/em>. It\u2019s a full-blown earworm. The song\u2019s primary refrain, \u201cL-U-C-K-Y, I\u2019m lucky \/ Y-O-U are mine cause I\u2019m lucky\u201d is brilliantly simple, a quality much of the album shares. \u201cButterflies\u201d, 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fcukers - &amp;apos;if you wanna party, come over to my house&amp;apos; (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yyJat1RGPi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cif you wanna party, come over to my house\u201d is more of a through and through dance song, showing the group\u2019s ability to oscillate between emotionally driven love songs and party anthems with ease. \u201cFeel The Real\u201d, 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\u2019s not a one-trick pony, as she seems to be channeling her more indie-rock background with the way she delivers her vocals.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the project\u2019s 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&nbsp;<em>\u04e6<\/em>. While the&nbsp;<em>Baggy$$&nbsp;<\/em>was an enjoyable and fruitful proof of concept for Fcukers and the type of music they make,&nbsp;<em>\u04e6&nbsp;<\/em>goes in far more directions and shows progression in the group\u2019s stylings. It\u2019s a fantastic debut that only makes me more excited to see where Fcukers goes from here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;\u04e6, their debut album.&nbsp; Fcukers consists of vocalist Shanny Wise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18,12,34,33,32,11,13,35],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-album","tag-album-review","tag-dance","tag-electronic","tag-fcukers","tag-music","tag-music-review","tag-pop","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-2-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-2-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Benjamin Kenyon","author_link":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/author\/benjaminkenyon\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coverchargeblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}