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In 2023, the New York party-starters went from selling out their first-ever show in Brooklyn to gigs in Sydney and Tokyo and a set at Paris Fashion Week—all before releasing their first EP, 2024’s <i>Baggy$$</i>. The debut album from the duo of Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis arrives two years later as the result of a whirlwind two-week session with executive producer Kenneth Blume (fka Kenny Beats) in his LA studio. Having recorded <i>Baggy$$</i> in Lewis’ NYC bedroom, the opportunity felt like an upgrade. “It was like we had been driving a Kia and then someone gave us keys to a Maserati,” Lewis tells Apple Music’s Tim Sweeney. On <i>Ö</i>, Fcukers’ blend of house, drum ’n’ ba, and reggae melds their respective influences into club catnip. A longtime house head, Lewis introduced Wise to ’90s NYC DJ greats like David Morales and Junior Sanchez (the latter of whom remixed two of the duo’s early singles). Meanwhile, Wise grew up listening to Bob Marley and Sublime. “I didn’t really have any preconceived ideas of how I should sing house, or how to write and produce house song,” she say. “So, it was kind of cool and fun to go into it blind.” .

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