Fcukers made a debut album that sounds like it was recorded by people who have never been afraid of a room. Ö arrived on March 27 via Ninja Tune, and it is exactly as confident and messy and alive as its live reputation promised it would be.

Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis formed Fcukers in New York City in 2022 and built their name the old-fashioned way: by throwing parties that people talked about afterward. The duo’s reputation was already well established before any of this was on record. The album was produced by Kenneth Blume (formerly Kenny Beats), mixed by Grammy-winning engineer Tom Norris, with additional production from Dylan Brady of 100 gecs on several tracks. That roster tells you something about the company they keep and the sonic territory they want to occupy.

Ö moves fast and does not apologize for any of it. The DNA is club music but the details are weirder and more interesting than that framing suggests. There are flashes of Y2K electro-pop, UK garage rhythms, traces of the downtown New York noise tradition processed through a dance floor sensibility. Wise’s vocals are the through line, pushing hard against the production rather than floating on top of it.

The album has energy to burn. What it sometimes lacks is patience. A few tracks feel like they are sprinting toward something that never fully arrives, more sketch than song. But that restlessness is also part of the appeal. Fcukers do not sound like they sat down and carefully considered all their options. They sound like they made decisions quickly and moved on, which in this genre is frequently the right call.

The collaboration with Brady is particularly effective on the tracks where the production gets most distorted and unstable. There is a shared commitment to making the listener slightly uncomfortable that suits the material well.

Whether Ö holds up as an album rather than a collection of club moments is a fair question. Some of it fades when you take it out of the context of a moving body. But the best parts, the moments where the production and Wise’s delivery find each other and lock in, feel genuinely thrilling. Downtown New York has produced a lot of dance music that was better experienced than listened to. Ö is trying to be both at once, and it gets surprisingly close.