Intro: Fcukers – DFA indie sleaze and ‘Devil’s Haircut’ mix on nu-indie hit ‘Homie Don’t Shake’
Fcukers are a New York electronic trio who are bringing a big indie sleaze vibe in their music to date.
With nods to DFA Records cowbell indie sleaze, blog house, hyperpop, Fcukers are that currently rare thing – a New York city buzz band in which the hype actually is happening transatlantically in real time.
The Fcukers hype
Fcukers are Shanny Wise (vocals, ex of The Shacks), Ben Scharf (drums) and Jackson Walker Lewis (bass, keys, production).
On the back of hype shows at SXSW, London and New York has lead to the likes of Julian Casablancas, Clairo and Yves Tumor turning up at shows (live appearances cosigns like it’s 2006 ?) and Hedi Slimane of Celine brought the group out to Paris Fashion Week to DJ the fashion house’s closing party.
One of Fcukers’ first songs was a piano-housey cover of Beck’s ‘Devil’s Haircut’ on ‘Devils Cut’, which promptly got a remix from NYC house producer from Junior Sanchez.
The trio then remixed one of their influential sources in James Murphy’s vocal on Jacknife Lee, Budgie and Lol Tolhurst’s ‘Los Angeles’.
Junior Sanchez’s remix builds on the band’s DJ parties which referenced Saint Etienne, Daft Punk, Coldcut, Todd Terry and funk mostly UK and European music of a bygone era, and the spelling of their name suggests the UK Francophile fashion label.
Their songs
Then came ‘Bon Bon’ which was a venn diagram between the indie sleaze electro sound of Fischerspooner and the hyperpop silliness of 100 Gecs.
‘Homie Don’t Shake’ is Fcukers’ calling card, and it arrived last week teasing a forthcoming debut EP, Baggy$$ (September 6th) on Technicolor, the Ninja Tune imprint.
The track has a literal sample of Beck’s Devil’s Haircut’ included and cowbell that plucked from a record from The Rapture, vocals channelled from Brazil indie sleaze era band CSS, and a breakdown that is straight out of the Chemical Brothers playbook.
It’s hard to make music sound this nonchalantly cool, but Fcukers do it easily, ‘Homie Don’t Shake’ is nonsensical (“say you’ll DJ at my wake”) grimey, DIY, evocative of an early era (I feel like the Cobra Snake reference is intentional) and endlessly repeatable.
Fcukers play Pitchfork Paris in November.
