Lambrini Girls

Lambrini Girls’ debut album ‘Who let the dogs out’ (City Slang) is Riot Grrrl power in the vein of 1990s shehemoths Huggy Bear and Sleater Kinney. It also reminds of short-lived group Voodoo Queens as Brighton-based twosome (Phoebe Lunny (vocals/guitar) and Lilly Macieira (bass) neck some apple-infused petrol (amongst other assorted booze-juices) and go headfirst and hurtling towards blaming, naming and shaming an array of personal peeves and societal ills.

Recorded with Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox with mixing by Seth Manchester (Mdou Moctar / Battles / Model/Actriz) there’s an incendiary mix of animosity, ferocity and velocity imbued with a total simplicity chockfull of barbed bombshells and bullseye-ball breaking.

Covering such dys-topics as lawful unlawfulness; sanctioned sexual inequality; body dysmorphia and image-saturated impossible bodyforms; the closing song ‘Cuntology’ is a post-millennial womanifesto, a screed di couer of defiance and self-empowerment.

Taking down and talking back at a litany of fakes on the make and take, be it institutional malfeasance and entrenched corruption on the police-baiting ‘Bad Apple’, a satirical swipe at the ‘rotten fruit’ that ‘protect and serve’: just exactly whom though is the matter of this explosive opening salvo.

‘Company Culture’ and ‘Big Dick Energy’ continues with attacks on those that reside within the darkened corridors of entrenched powers and the shadows of corporate masculinity, sanctuaries that breed and encourage misogynistic assault without impunity.

Gentrification and nepotism go hand in hand (blanded gentry?) and on ‘You’re not from round here’ and ‘Filthy Rich Nepo Baby’ the Girls go full-in and all-out on the latte capitalists, the slumdown dressing privileged offspring with unfettered access to the arts and their ennobled and enabled affectations, working-class worriers who chide at targets safe and afar from the maddening crowd.

Already - and likely to remain - the angriest debut this year. Not for the feigned-hearted.