'Ö' does a fantastic job of crystallising the Fcukers soundscape, while leaving the door open enough for experimentation beyond it. The tracks rarely surpass the three-minute mark – a clear indicator of where dance music is currently at, considering the era the band are often pulling from usually has songs at double that length – making for a record that's punchy, direct, and more attention-claiming than your For You page. 

With every track change, they switch gears. Of course, New York house takes centre stage – dub reggae getting its shining moment on 'TTYGF' – but it's the sort of album that feels like it could go anywhere. On the singles, they hit UK bassline ('Play Me') and big beat ('if you wanna party come over to my house'), while garage shows up on 'Butterflies', breakbeats on 'Getaway', Atlanta bass on 'Lonely', closing the record with trip hop number 'Feel The Real'.

"I think that that's something that we've always kind of been into, showing a range," says Shanny. Jackson nods to 90s electronic albums by acts like The Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada and Everything But The Girl as examples of how eclectic dance albums can be. "I think we're only in the era we are now in dance, where you get these kind of DJ albums where it'll just be ten tracks of the same beat, same bpm," he says. "It's fun too, because for Shanny and I, it also means that we could literally do whatever we want if we just set the table."

"We want to try to push things forward artistically. What can we do that's not just our EP 2.0, you know?" he continues, although 'I Like It Like That' does almost reach the euphoric highs of breakthrough single 'Bon Bon'. "At the time, Shanny and I were listening a lot to the 2000s hip-hop club music that we grew up on. I think the only real concept that we had around the album with Kenny was collaging sounds from that in different contexts, and trying to do abnormal mix-ups."

Within just a handful of singles, Fcukers established their sound: bombastic retro house beats with a (perhaps bizarre, coming from two white New York dwellers) ragga jungle edge. 

"I really didn't listen to a lot of house music before I met Jackson," says Shanny. "I grew up listening to a lot of dub and reggae, and dancehall. So I think maybe it was a cool meeting of our different influences, you know. And having not that much knowledge of house before doing Fcukers is a cool thing in a way, for me, because I didn't have any preconceived ideas of normal house style melodies and stuff like that. I don't know, maybe it was kind of freeing in a way."

"I think the funny thing is that, actually, a lot of the sound we have, we're less influenced by ragga jungle than we are by the fact that she's into dub reggae, and I love house," adds Jackson. "It's fused, and it's always been that way."

Born and raised in New York, the city's impact on Shanny is undeniable. "I'm really grateful for growing up here," she says, "because I think I got exposed to so much, musically too, from a really young age. You're just around it. In the deli, you're hearing Bangladeshi music, in the subway, you're hearing drum circles. Music is everywhere, all different styles of music too, which is really beautiful."

Prior to founding Fcukers, Shanny fronted The Shacks, the hidden 2010s indie gem of a band who created twee retro soul with influences as widespread as the ones she brings to her new band; her singing voice, soft and airy, providing a gentle contrast to the psychedelic instrumentals in the same way it does against a booming house backdrop now.

Jackson, too, made three albums with his band Spud Cannon in the second half of the 2010s, the surf and garage rock a far cry from the stuff he'd later discover in record stores around New York City. Born in Los Angeles, he once swore he'd never move to New York after a particularly traumatic Black Friday experience there as a child, but after heading to the East Coast for college, he decided to stay.

"I mean, for me, it was honestly kind of mind-blowing, and so refreshing," he says. "Growing up in LA, there was really no heritage of dance music; actually, it was just bad EDM. And I thought that house music was just hotel lobby music, to be honest. I listened to a lot of trip hop, but I didn't really get into much house. And then I moved to New York, and the music heritage is just so rich here, you know. When you look at its place and how many people it influenced who just visited here, it was just sick for me, after being such a music fan, just to dive in. You have, you know, A Tribe Called Quest, and you have Wu Tang, and you have Mobb Deep and all the 90s Hip Hop stuff. And then I got really into house, because obviously, like New York House in the 90s. I mean, that's still my favourite. I remember going to a record store and just being like, whoa."

The pair were introduced to one another by mutual friends in 2022; both disillusioned with the indie scene, they left their respective bands and pushed for something new. Coming from completely different backgrounds, their shared penchant for experimenting meant they had something new to offer.

"I think it's interesting from a songwriting perspective, because also we both came from learning how to do songwriting, where you pick up a guitar, and it starts like this, and then it like goes like this," Shanny explains. "For me at least, it's been really interesting and different, learning how to write dance and electronic music. A lot of times, you're just starting with a loop of drums and bass, and then you start maybe in the middle and then build it out from there, rather than starting from the beginning and going, okay, then this, then this, then this. It's been really fun to learn that and mess around with that experience."

The formation of Fcukers came at the perfect time. As New York woke up from its COVID-induced slumber and nightlife returned, the next generation of party starters were making the city feel truly cool and exciting again, fostering a culture of equal parts community and exclusivity.

"Right after the pandemic, when stuff started to reopen, there was just such an energy here. Everyone was ready to party," says Jackson. "But I think the cool thing that doesn't get talked about that much is the scene that developed here naturally. And obviously, at the time, it was The Dare, Chanel Beads, Frost Children, you know? Everyone was just focused locally. That was the vibe. All of the bands that were here, us included, no one was thinking about let's go on tour, let's get signed. Everyone was just like, they're throwing a party over there, we should try to do a party here, three blocks away. Everything was designed with, let's release this, because they released that. I think that was part of, at the time, what made it so fun. The Dare was throwing his party every week at Home Sweet Home. Chanel Beads was playing in New York all the time, and nowhere else. They'd pop up in a church, or they did a pop-up DIY gig in an abandoned rail tunnel in Bushwick. Everyone was throwing dope shit. After years of New York bands not getting signed, and the New York scene kind of being dead, because we just had 15 years of bands trying to be The Strokes, it was like, alright, well, we're just doing it for us."

While playing beyond the city's borders might not have been the goal from the outset, Fcukers have taken their portable party worldwide, opening for LCD Soundsystem on their own stomping ground, Confidence Man this side of the Atlantic, Tame Impala down under. Next stop: Brazil with Harry Styles on his massive Together Together tour.

"I have no idea how we ended up on it. Honestly, we could open for any of the other openers," says Jackson, admitting that neither of them had any idea how big of a deal our Haz is. 

But before that, they'll be bringing their portable party to the UK for their own tour, including a stop at London's Kentish Town Forum. Less than three years ago, Fcukers played their first ever show at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right, a midnight gig that was packed out from word-of-mouth invitations before they'd even released a track. If that's anything to go by, Fcukers are unmissable in any part of the world.

Fcukers' album 'Ö' is out 27th March.