100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #52 Fcukers – Bon Bon

Released: 2024

New York. The Big Apple. Some other cliche. It’s cool, isn’t it? Feasibly with the right contacts and enough phone battery you could get yoursef into the kind of trouble the nu-m0ral majoriti will have you sent to some fifth world country for. Let’s go!

But every escapade needs a soundtrack. And we need new soundtracks, new dramas, to feed our weaknesses. Fcukers won’t win any awards for subtlety, but the trio – Shanny Wise (vocals), Ben Scharf (drums), and Jackson Walker Lewis (bass, keys) – are here to lay up exactly the sort of package you need, just when you need it.

So you put the needle on the record, and…it’s the sound of UK Garage, circa the turn of the century: worming, da dum, da dum, sub bass that feels dirtier than Manhattan air on a hot August afternoon and a plitzing hi-hat, the whole thing a cry of “Selecta” away from being a giant re-re-Wind. It’s cool New York, isn’t it? maybe just a little bit of over here does the trick too.