
LAMBRINI GIRLS
Who Let The Dogs Out (City Slang)
Who Let The Dogs Out is the first album from Brighton-based band Lambrini Girls. With Lilly Macieira on bass, Phoebe Lunny is the guitarist and mouthpiece of the duo – a shouting call to action against everything wrong with the modern world. The 11-track record follows their 2023 EP You’re Welcome, airing more of the frustrating issues ripe in British culture, checking several boxes of contemporary sociopolitical discourse.
Bad Apple opens with the wiry siren of a police car over Macieira’s grating bass – it lyrically sets the scene for the rest of the album; tongue-in-cheek, abrasively honest, sometimes monotonous. Big Dick Energy continues these sentiments, channelling the chaos Lambrini Girls have become associated with through their live shows.
While its ethos is morally just, Who Let The Dogs Out at times feels creatively undernourished. It’s a paradox often debated in DIY punk that is tricky to navigate – Lambrini Girls speak for ethics that we all should believe in, but the scope of this album is broad and often lacks the depth such subjects deserve, leaving the outcome as a bit inadvertently disingenuous. Their failure to establish their music with a unique perspective leaves them slightly missing the mark this time around.
words TERESA DELFINO